Inge
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thumb | right | alt=Inge Lønning, Norwegian politician (Conservative Party). | Inge Lønning, Norwegian politician (Conservative Party). 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. In Danish, Estonian, Frisian, German and Dutch it is exclusively feminine. The feminine name has the variant Inga. In German it is sometimes a short form or nickname of Ingeborg.
Key facts
- Given name.name
- Inge
- Given name.gender
- Unisex
- Given name.related names
- Inga, Yngvi, Yngve
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- People called Inge
- Masculine given name
- Scandinavian royalty
- Modern
- Feminine given name
- Surname
- See also
- References
thumb | right | alt=Inge Lønning, Norwegian politician (Conservative Party). | Inge Lønning, Norwegian politician (Conservative Party). 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. In Danish, Estonian, Frisian, German and Dutch it is exclusively feminine. The feminine name has the variant Inga. In German it is sometimes a short form or nickname of Ingeborg.
The name is in origin a hypocorism of names beginning in the element Ing- (such as Ingar, Inger, Ingrid, Ingeborg, Ingram, Ingvild, Ingunn etc.). These Germanic names made reference to either the god Ing or to the tribe of the Ingvaeones (who were presumably in turn named for the god).
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