First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Name origin: Scandinavian
Name meaning: Hero's daughter; derived from Ing, the god of fertility
Name origin: Swedish
Name meaning: patronymic from the personal name Nils, a reduced form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas).