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The INGE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,137 13119 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 640 7909 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +1497 -5210 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 46 27305 0 3
United Kingdom 233 15001 0.001 5
Top States for INGE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 744 1350 0.011 105
Alabama 193 3310 0.004 43
Texas 156 11702 0.001 7
California 120 20980 0.000 4
North Carolina 92 7914 0.001 11
Top States for INGE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 744 1350 0.011 105
Alabama 193 3310 0.004 43
New Mexico 36 4720 0.002 20
Delaware 13 11198 0.002 17
Washington DC 9 6659 0.002 16

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called INGE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called INGE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called INGE in Virginia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a INGE by picking someone at random in Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of INGE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the INGE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the INGE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of INGE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 678 31.73
White (Hispanic) 77 3.6
Mixed Race 45 2.11
Asian/Pacific 28 1.31
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.42
White (Caucasian) 1,300 60.83

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the INGE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of INGE in historical publications

Ing, Saxon, a pasture, a meadow or watering place, low ground. Danish, Eng, a meadow, meadow ground, pasture; a place near a river. Welsh, Ing, narrow, a strait.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


INGE. Places in cos. Chester and Lancaster.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to INGE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as INGE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for INGE

The following words are slight variants of INGE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.