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Ingo

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Gender
  
Male

Meaning
  
protected by Yngvi

Related names
  
Inga

Word/name
  
Germanic

Region of origin
  
Northern Europe

Pronunciation
  
Swedish: [ˈɪŋːu] or Swedish: [ˈɪŋɡu], German: [ˈɪŋɡɔ]

Ingo is a first name in contemporary Scandinavia and Germany, and a historical name in France. It is the male version of the name Inga, used in the same region.

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"Ingo" means "protected by Yngvi", who is the main god for the Ingvaeones, and is probably a different name for the Germanic god Freyr.

Persons with the name Ingo

  • Ingó, Icelandic singer, solo and as part of Ingó og Veðurguðirnir
  • Ingo Anderbrügge, German football player
  • Ingo Buding, German tennis player
  • Ingo Giezendanner, Swiss artist
  • Ingo Gildenhard, Fellow of Kings College Cambridge, classicist
  • Ingo Hoffmann, Brazilian race car driver
  • Ingemar Johansson, "Ingo", Swedish boxer
  • Ingo Molnár, Hungarian computer programmer
  • Ingo Nugel, German composer of video game music
  • Ingo Preminger, American movie producer, brother of director Otto Preminger
  • Ingo Rademacher, German-born Australian soap opera actor
  • Ingo Schmitt, German politician
  • Ingo Schulze, German author
  • Ingo Schwichtenberg, German rock musician
  • Ingo Steuer, German figure skater
  • Ingo Swann, remote viewer
  • Ingo Wellenreuther, German politician

    • Fictional characters

  • Ingo, an associate of Talon in The Legend of Zelda series
  • Ingo, one of the Subway Bosses in Pokémon Black and White

    • References

    Ingo Wikipedia
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