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Well you just need to follow the links.

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Inka is the Frisian feminine form of Inge,

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And Inge is masculin or femine, and is a short form of German and Scandinavian names beginning with the element ing, which refers to the Norse god Ing.

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Ing is from from old Germanic Ingwaz, which possibly means "he who is foremost". Ing was the name of a Norse and Germanic fertility god, known in Scandinavia as Yngvi Freyr (see FREYR).

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So really your name means 'he who is foremost', unless you were named after a relative who's name started with ing and then your name would more symbolically mean that deffinition.

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Here are some names that start with 'ing' after the god Ing (I have taken out duplicates, eg. INGER which is a variant of INGRID or INGEGERD and just included Ingrid and Ingegerd)

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INGEBORG f Scandinavian, German
Derived from the name of the Norse god ING combined with Old Norse borg meaning "fortress".

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INGEGERD f Scandinavian
Derived from the name of the Norse god ING combined with Old Norse garðr meaning "enclosure".

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INGEMAR m Scandinavian

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INGOLF m Scandinavian
Derived from the name of the Norse god ING combined with Old Norse úlfr meaning "wolf".

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INGRID f Scandinavian, German
Means "Ing is beautiful" from the name of the Norse god ING combined with Old Norse fríðr "beautiful". A famous bearer was Ingrid Bergman, an actress from Sweden.

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INGVAR m Scandinavian
Derived from the name of the Norse god ING combined with Old Norse arr meaning "warrior".

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~SD