Ingo
Ingo is a boy's name that peaked in 1957, when it was the 3,024th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1970. About 40 Ingos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Ingo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 46
- Estimated living today
- 40
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 3,024th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1957
How old the living Ingos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 46 babies given the name since 1957, about 40 are alive — 81 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Ingos
- Ingo Schwichtenberg (1965–1995)German drummer
- Ingo Hoffmann (born 1953)racecar driver
- Ingo Schulze (born 1962)German writer
- Ingo Molnár (born 2000)Linux kernel programmer
- Ingo Schultz (born 1975)German sprinter
- Ingo Appelt (born 1961)bobsledder
- Ingo Steuer (born 1966)German pair skater and coach
- Ingo Weißenborn (born 1963)fencer
People named Ingo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1957
The most popular boys’ names the year Ingo peaked:
Ingo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Ingo | 30 | 6,031st |
| Belgium boys | Ingo | 27 | 625th |
| England and Wales boys | Ingo | 3 | 4,685th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ingo: rank by region
In 2002, Ingo was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ingo | 723 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ingo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ingo | 7 | 19 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Ingo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.