Boy · Old Norse
Ingvar
Say it: ING-var
Meaning
From the god-name Ing and herr 'army, warrior'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Recorded on more than twenty Swedish runestones commemorating Ingvar's eastern expedition.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| Old Norse | Yngvarr |
|---|---|
| Russian | Igor |
Famous bearers
- Ingvar the Far-Travelled, leader of an eastern expedition remembered on runestones
- Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA
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Where this comes from
- Viking Age runestone inscriptions
- The Icelandic sagas and other Old Norse literature
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