Ingo
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This article is about the first name "Ingo". For the children's novel by Helen Dunmore, see Ingo (novel).
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| Pronunciation | ɪɳʔo |
| Gender | Male |
| Meaning | protected by Yngvi |
| Region of Origin | Northern Europe |
| Origin | Germanic |
| Related names | Inga |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Ingo |
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, and as a name for a tropical plant.
"Ingo" means "protected by Yngvi", who is the main god for the Ingvaeones, and is probably a different name for the Germanic god Freyr.
[edit] Persons with the name Ingo
- Ingo Anderbrügge, German football player
- Ingo Buding, German tennis player
- Ingo Giezendanner, Swiss artist
- 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, a character in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
