Entry № 4551 · Old Norse origin

Ingeborg Ingeborg — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ING-eh-borg /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Protected by Ing"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "protected by ing".

Ingeborg joins Ing (the god of fertility and plenty) with borg (protection) — under the gods shelter. It is an old, dignified Norse name.

It reads noble and rooted, protection from the gods.

Protected by Ing — a Old Norse name of grace and heritage.

The name in its native script.

Ingeborg
Transliteration
Ingeborg
Pronunciation
/ ˈɪŋ.ɛ.bɔrɡ /
Root
Grammatical form

What Ingeborg is built from.

Ingeborg is a compound name. Its parts are borg — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

borg
Old Norse
“fortress”

Where Ingeborg stands.

Ingeborg does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ingeborgs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Ingeborg.

The number behind Ingeborg.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ingeborg reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.