Inka

  • [ EENG-kah (Finnish), ING-kah (German) ]
  • Frisian, Finnish, German
Frisian and Finnish feminine form of INGE, and a German variant.

INGE   female & male   Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Dutch
Short form of Scandinavian and German names beginning with the element ing, which refers to the Germanic god ING. In Sweden and Norway this is primarily a masculine name, elsewhere it is usually feminine.
ING   male   Germanic Mythology
From the Germanic *Ingwaz, possibly meaning "ancestor". This was the name of an obscure old Germanic fertility god who was considered the ancestor of the tribe the Ingaevones. It is possible he was an earlier incarnation of the god Freyr.
FULL FORMS
FINNISH: Inkeri
GERMAN: Ingeborg, Ingeburg
EQUIVALENTS
ANCIENT GERMANIC: Inga, Ingeburg
ANCIENT SCANDINAVIAN: Inga, Ingibjörg, Ingigerðr, Ingríðr
DANISH: Inga, Inge, Ingebjørg, Ingeborg, Ingegerd, Inger, Ingrid
DUTCH: Inge
FINNISH: Inka
FRISIAN: Inka
GERMAN: Inge, Inka
ICELANDIC: Inga, Ingibjörg
LATVIAN: Inga
LITHUANIAN: Inga
NORWEGIAN: Inga, Ingebjørg, Ingeborg, Ingegerd, Inger, Ingrid
RUSSIAN: Inga
SWEDISH: Inga, Ingeborg, Ingegärd, Ingegerd, Inger, Ingrid
OTHER FORMS
GERMANIC MYTHOLOGY: Ing