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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from the widespread farm name Engen, from the singular definite form of Old Norse eng ‘meadow’.
  • Dutch : from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Ingo (borne by the hero of the Ingweones tribe).
  • Dutch : reduced form of Van Engen.

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