First name origin & meaning: German: Mythical fertility god First name variations: Inge Last name origins & meanings:
- English: from the Old Norse and Middle English personal name
Ing(a), a short form of various names with the first element
Ing- (see Ingle).
- English: habitational name from an
Essex place name, Ing, which survives with various manorial affixes in
the names Fryerning, Ingatestone, Ingrave, and Margaretting, and which
is probably from an Old English tribal name Gēingas ‘people
of the district’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname
from Yiddish ing ‘young’.
- Chinese:
possibly a
variant of Wu 1. - Chinese:
possibly a
variant of Wu 4. This name appears in the following lists:
Ancient Names
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