Ingá
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Ingá is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Inga. First recorded in Norway around 1200. Ingá is also written Ինգա in Armenian, ინგა in Georgian and Ινγκα in Greek.
- PEPeru≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 2.2K
- ARArgentina1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ingá in other scripts: Armenian, Georgian and Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Inga in PE Peru, EC Ecuador, AR Argentina and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Old Norse Inga. First recorded in Norway around 1200.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ingá is found
(measured from records)Ingá counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INEC — civil registry names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ingá is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tpn, inga (any plant in the genus Inga)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ingá mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Inga. First recorded in Norway around 1200. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ingá?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Ingá in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled inga. After it come Ecuador, Argentina, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ingá?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 7,856 people named Ingá in 2024, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Ingá compared with other names?
- In Peru, Ingá is the 133rd most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ingá?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ing%C3%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ingá” — the 133rd most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.