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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Raven

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Yorkshire and Lancashire) : habitational name from any of several places so called, of which the largest are in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. The place name is from the Old English personal name Inga + hām ‘homestead’. Some authorities believe the first element to be a word meaning ‘the Inguione’, from an ancient Germanic tribe known as the Inguiones.

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