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Ingan
I once knew a girl named Ingan. Do you know what that name means or where it comes from?
Possibily from Ing names?
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It could be an ellaboration of Inga.
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It would help if you knew where was she from? My first thought was that it could be an anglicized form of the Gaelic Inghean (actually pronounced IN-yen) which simply means daughter.

This message was edited 7/15/2008, 10:32 AM

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Is Inghean actually used as a name in Ireland?
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She was born in USA, I do not know where her family may have been from before that. Their family name is Dahl. Also, she pronounced her name with the ing like the american ending of words -ing. ING-an. Hard G sound.It could be a made up name. I do not know.
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Dahl is Norweigan isn't it? so it might be related to names derived from the Scandinavian/Germanic God Ing
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It could be a form of IngunIngun is a Norwegian name. (But the surname Dahl is Swedish as well as Norwegian.)
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