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Ing is a medieval English surname, of Norse-Viking origins, possibly from the name of the Norse god Yngvi or from someone living near an ing, a meadow. [1] It can also be a romanisation of the East Asian surname Ng .
The surname is sometimes romanized as Ang, Eng, Ing and Ong in the United States and Ung in Australia. The Mandarin version of Ng is sometimes romanized as Woo or Wu. In Vietnam, the corresponding surname is Ngô. In Cambodia, the corresponding surname is Oeng. [specify]
For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).
Ing (surname), a medieval English surname, of Norse-Viking origins Ing Chang-ki (1914–1997), Taiwanese industrialist, philanthropist and founder of the Ing Foundation; Ing Yoe Tan (born 1948), Dutch lawmaker of Chinese descent, member of the Senate for the Labour Party (PvdA) since 1998
Inge is a given name in various Germanic language-speaking cultures. In Swedish and Norwegian, it is mostly used as a masculine, but less often also as a feminine name, sometimes as a short form of Ingeborg, while in Danish, Estonian, Frisian, German and Dutch it is exclusively feminine.
The rural population only reluctantly gave up the traditional primary patronyms. Several naming acts replaced the first; in 1856, 1904, 1961, 1981, 2005. The result of the first act was that most people took a patronymic surname as their heritable family name, with the overwhelming dominance of a few surnames as a consequence.
The English surname Hing is probably a variant of Ing, with a prothetic /h/ added at the beginning. Other similar variants include Hynge and Henge. According to the International Genealogical Index of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the spelling Hynge is recorded as early as 1541 in Croydon, while there are various records of the spelling Hing throughout the 17th century in ...
Origin; Language(s) English: Meaning: Ing + hraban (raven) [1] Region of origin: England: Other names; ... Ingram or Ingrams is a surname, from the given name Ingram.