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HelpRe: Can Ingrid work on a girl who is German?
in reply to a message by Antique_Cherub (nsi)
With the massive wave of Scandinavian names that has been sweeping over Germany those past few years, she'd fit right in here ;-)
Seriously though, while it's true that we only "officially adopted" Ingrid in the 1800's, she must have felt at home here straight away seeing as we have quite a few home-grown Ing- names ourselves. And yet there were more "Ing- boys" than "Ing- girls", so I guess "integrating" Ingrid felt "logical". Or something. Huh, rambling again...
Anyway, I just had a look at the statistics and it appears that Ingrid was a top ten name here from 1929 to 1952, she only truly "disappeared" off the radar in the late 1960's or early 1970's. Other than that she somehow seems to defy the "100 year cycle" and is now deemed "hipster chic" by some avant-gardist posters on German name boards ;-)
I somehow feel like I didn't even get close to answering your question. So, um, yes, I think Ingrid would work on a German girl. Very well so.
And by the way, I like this name quite a bit ;-)
Seriously though, while it's true that we only "officially adopted" Ingrid in the 1800's, she must have felt at home here straight away seeing as we have quite a few home-grown Ing- names ourselves. And yet there were more "Ing- boys" than "Ing- girls", so I guess "integrating" Ingrid felt "logical". Or something. Huh, rambling again...
Anyway, I just had a look at the statistics and it appears that Ingrid was a top ten name here from 1929 to 1952, she only truly "disappeared" off the radar in the late 1960's or early 1970's. Other than that she somehow seems to defy the "100 year cycle" and is now deemed "hipster chic" by some avant-gardist posters on German name boards ;-)
I somehow feel like I didn't even get close to answering your question. So, um, yes, I think Ingrid would work on a German girl. Very well so.
And by the way, I like this name quite a bit ;-)
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