Ingvar (name)

The name Ingvar is an Old Norse first name for men common in Scandinavia meaning "protected by Yngvi". The feminine version of the name is Inga.

The first element of the name is derived from Proto-Norse *Ing(w)ia (Ingi-), Norse Yngvi, who is better known by the title Freyr "Lord". The second element is probably either *harjaz (warrior) or *warjaz (defender). The name consequently either meant Freyr's warrior or Freyr's defender.

Igor is a given name derived from the Scandinavian name Ingvar that was brought to Kievan Rus' by the Varangians.

Old English sources suggest that the birth-name of Ivar the Boneless might have been Ingvar; he is referred to as Hyngvar, Hingvar and Inguar in the English annals.

People

First name

Ingvar, Swedish ruler

Ingvar the Far-Travelled, 11th-century Swedish Viking

Ingvar of Kiev, 13th-century monarch of Kiev

Ingvar Ambjørnsen (born 1956), Norwegian writer

Ingvar Bengtsson (1922–2001), Swedish athlete

Ingvar Carlsson (born 1934), Swedish politician

Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson (born 1963), Icelandic actor

Ingvar Ericsson, multiple people

Ingvar Gärd (1921–2006), Swedish football player

Ingvar Jónsson (born 1989), Icelandic football player

Ingvar Kamprad (1926–2018), Swedish businessman

Ingvar Lindell (1904–1993), Swedish jurist and politician

Ingvar Oldsberg (1945–2022), Swedish television presenter and sports journalist

Ingvar Pettersson, multiple people

Ingvar Rydell (1922–2013), Swedish football player

Ingvar Skogsberg (born 1937), Swedish film director and screenwriter

Ingvar Svensson, multiple people

Middle name

John Ingvar Lövgren (1930–2002), Swedish murderer

Icelandic masculine given names

Swedish masculine given names

Norwegian masculine given names

Masculine given names

Scandinavian masculine given names