Ingram

66,120 people in America carry this name — ranked #496 of 777.

A surname with a trade, a place or a father behind it.

Say it IHNGG ruhm

2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

IH1 NG G R AH0 M — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 66,120 2020 Census
  • As a first name 453 ranked #22,112 the other way round

What Ingram means and where it comes from

Teutonic in origin, reading literally as “Ing’s raven”.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

Who answers to it now

  • White alone (non-Hispanic) — 58.8%
  • Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 32.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino origin — 3.4%
  • Two or more races — 4.6%
  • Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 0.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native alone — 0.5%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

Surnames built the same way as Ingram

Nothing else in the file ends on the same sound — a rare thing, and useful if you want a first name nobody will echo.

Same rhythm — 2 syllables, stress on the first

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

The same name elsewhere

  • Engelram Ger.|Gr
  • Ingeltram English
  • Engerrand Fr.|Gr

Forms of one name traced to the same root. Spellings are as the glossary printed them, so some look older than the versions in use today.

Try it How Rare Is It?

Where this name sits between household and almost unheard of.

Rare

  • People counted453
  • Rank#22,112
  • Roughly1 in 731,676 people

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Where this page gets its numbers

  • Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
  • Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
  • Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers
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