Inge

See INGE for the International Noble Gas Experiment

Inge 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, while in Danish, 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- (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).

Inge is also encountered as a surname in the Anglosphere; the surname is usually pronounced in England to rhyme with "ring"; alternatively (especially in the USA) some families pronounce it to rhyme with "hinge."

People called Inge

• Darius Inge, US Army Ordnance Soldier from Montgomery, Alabama
• Scandinavian royalty
  • Inge I of Norway (died 1161)
  • Inge II of Norway (died 1217)
  • Inge I of Sweden (died c. 1100)
  • Inge II of Sweden (12th century)
• modern
• Inge Krokann (died 1962), Norwegian writer
• Kjell Inge Røkke (born 1958), Norwegian businessman
• Stig Inge Bjørnebye (born 1969), Norwegian soccer player

Feminine given name

• Inge Kilian (born 1935), German high jumper
• Inge Lehmann (died 1993), Danish seismologist

Surname

• Field Marshal Peter Anthony Inge (born 1935), British soldier; Baron Inge, KG, GCB, PC, DL, former chief of the UK Defence Staff
• Brandon Inge (born 1977), American athlete (baseball), Detroit Tigers third baseman (1998–2012)^[1]
• M. Thomas Inge (born 20th century), American author
• Samuel Williams Inge (1817-1868), U.S. Congressman
• William Inge (disambiguation), several people known by that name, including the 20th-century American playwright

References

See also

• Yngve