Irmgard

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Irmgard (in variants including Irmengard , Irmingard , Ermengarde ) is a female given name .

Origin and meaning

The name comes from the Old High German ermin / irmin "large", "powerful" and gard "protection" (cf. etymology of the word garden )

distribution

The name Irmgard was one of the ten most common girls' names in Germany from the mid-1910s to the mid-1930s. Its popularity declined in the forties, and the name has hardly been used since the late 1950s.

Name days (blessed / saints)

variants

The origin of the name is particularly evident in the older variants of the name, which include Ermengard (e) , Irmengard and Irmingard . The mostly medieval name-bearers sometimes show several spellings for the same people. The Latinized form was achieved by adding the suffix -is , for example in Irmengardis von Aspel . A less common male form is also known: Ermengardus, for example in Hermangard d'Asp .

The shorter forms Irmgard (the most common form today), but also Ermgard and Armgard , are often more recent. The variant Ehrengard is also modern, it can be both a corrupted form of Ermengard, as well as a parallel formation with honor .

There are numerous abbreviations and nicknames that are only formed with the first part of the name ermin / irmin and can therefore go back to Irmgard, Irmtraud or Irmhilde. These include Erma , Irma , Irmchen, Irmi, Irmine, Irmela and Imke .

The name Irmgart is rarely spelled with t at the end.

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  1. ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"