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. The feminine name has the variant Inga.
The name is in origin a hypocorism of names beginning in the element Ing-. These Germanic names made reference to either the god Ing or to the tribe of the Ingvaeones.
Inge is also encountered as a surname in the English-speaking world; the surname is usually pronounced in England to rhyme with "ring"; alternatively some families pronounce it to rhyme with "hinge."

People called Inge

Masculine given name

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