Ingo

This article is about the first name "Ingo". For the children's novel by Helen Dunmore, see Ingo (novel). For the eccentric-wheeled "Ingo-bike" bicycle, see Whymcycle.

Ingo
Pronunciation	Swedish: [ˈɪŋːu] or Swedish: [ˈɪŋɡu], German: [ˈɪŋɡɔ]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/Name	Germanic
Meaning	protected by Yngvi
Region of origin	Northern Europe
Other names
Related names	Inga

Ingo is a first name in contemporary Scandinavia and Germany, and a historical name in France. It is the male version of the name Inga, used in the same region, and as a name for a tropical plant.

"Ingo" means "protected by Yngvi", who is the main god for the Ingvaeones, and is probably a different name for the Germanic god Freyr.

Persons with the name Ingo

• Ingo Anderbrügge, German football player
• Ingo Buding, German tennis player
• Ingo Giezendanner, Swiss artist
• Ingo Hoffmann, Brazilian race car driver
• Ingemar Johansson, "Ingo", Swedish boxer
• Ingo Molnár, Hungarian computer programmer
• Ingo Nugel, German composer of video game music
• Ingo Polonia, Austrian folk singer
• Ingo Preminger, American movie producer, brother of director Otto Preminger
• Ingo Rademacher, German-born Australian soap opera actor
• Ingo Schmitt, German politician
• Ingo Schulze, German author
• Ingo Schwichtenberg, German rock musician
• Ingo Steuer, German figure skater
• Ingo Swann, remote viewer
• Ingo, a character in The Legend of Zelda series
• Ingo Rutenberg Canadian/American business man
• Ingo Schel Dutch hockey player

See also

• Inga, Ingolf, Ingmar, Ingobald, Ingrid, Inka, Inken
• International nongovernmental organization (INGO)
• Eccentric-hub scooter, sold under the brand name Ingo-bike