Girl · Old Norse
Inga
Say it: ING-ah
Meaning
A short form of names beginning with Ing-, the name of the god Yngvi-Freyr.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Recorded on Swedish runestones of the 11th century and still in use.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 4,044 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1889, about 1 in 4,100 girls
- 12 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| Danish | Inge |
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Where this comes from
- Viking Age runestone inscriptions
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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