What nationality is Inge?

Inge is a given name in various Germanic language-speaking cultures. In Swedish and Norwegian, it is mostly used as a masculine, but less often also as a feminine name, sometimes as a short form of Ingeborg, while in Danish, Estonian, Frisian, German and Dutch it is exclusively feminine.

Is Inge a Viking name?

This unusual suname is medieval English, but of Norse-Viking pre 7th century origins. It has two possible origins. The first is from the personal name Ing or Inga, itself often an element in both compound names such as Ingall, Ingle, Ingold and in the place names of Ingleby, Ingoldsby and over fifty others.

What does Inge mean in English?

In Scandinavian Baby Names the meaning of the name Inge is: Feminine : Ing’s protection (Ing was the Norse god of peace and fertility). Hero’s daughter.

Is Inge short for Ingrid?

Proper noun A female given name, short form of Ingrid and related names.

What does the last name Inge mean?

The Anglo-Saxon name Inge comes from when the family resided in an area that was referred to as the ing, which means the meadow by a river. The name could also have been a baptismal name as in son of Inge.

What is ING THE GOD OF?

Modern scholarship indicates Ing was the original name of the Old Norse god Yngvi, and thus the original name of the god Freyr, a legendary ancestor of the Swedish Royal Family. Freyr was the god of virility, prosperity, sacral kingship, sunshine, and fair weather.

Is Inge a Scrabble word?

Inge is not a Scrabble word.

Is Ingrid a weird name?

Ingrid peaked at #382 in 1967. Even then, it lagged behind softer names, the Lisa-and-Tammys that dominated the decade. As of 2016, the name stands at #871. Not obscure, exactly, but far from common.

What is Inge in German?

Inge; William Ralph Inge; Gloomy Dean; archpriest; hierarch; high priest; prelate; primate.