first name
INGA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,193 people named Inga, 80.1% reported their origin as White, 13% as Black and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Inga peaked in 1969, when 115 babies got the name.
At least 4,127 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Inga by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #710. The largest share of babies named Inga, 24.9%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Exactly as common as Inga
2 other first names also have 4,193 people.
Either side of Inga
Spelled almost the same
6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Inga, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Inga ranks #24,236 of 156,621, with 1,077 people. See Inga as a last name
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