Inge
Barely 77 people in Poland carry it, almost all of them women, and no girl has been given it in recent years. A Germanic name meaning "guarded by Ing", an old Germanic god.
Inge Pronunciation
Inge is pronounced EEN-ge (/ˈingɛ/).
What Inge means
Where Inge comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Inge grows from Germanic soil, and from a god. The name points to Ing, an old Germanic deity also called Yngvi. Its short meaning is plain: guarded by Ing. Tacitus, writing his Germania around 98 AD, named the Ingaevones, a group of tribes that traced themselves to this same figure. The name reaches back to a people and their protector.
In German and Scandinavian usage, Inge stands on its own and once served as a short form for longer names built on the Ing element. It belongs to men and women both. A Danish child and a German grandmother could share it without anyone blinking.
Picture a Polish class register with an exchange student named Inge among the Katarzynas and Piotrs. The name looks short, four letters, and reads at once. Its meaning holds steady: guarded by Ing.
How many people are named Inge
1 in 308820 women in Poland is named Inge. 77 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4060 among female names.
Inge as a middle name
Inge is a first name for 77 women in Poland and a middle name for another 47, a 62/38 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1004th, between Elisabet (47) and Lilli (47).
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#1002 Daniella47
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#1003 Elisabet47
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#1004 Inge47
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#1005 Lilli47
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#1006 Lizeth47