Entry № 4555 · Sami origin

Inger Inger — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Sami
Meaning
"Guarded by Ing"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "guarded by ing".

Inger is a name of Sami origin, meaning guarded by Ing.

Guarded by Ing — a Sami name.

The name in its native script.

Inger
Transliteration
Inger
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Inger stands.

Inger does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ingers before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Inger.

The number behind Inger.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Inger reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.