Entry № 4559 · Icelandic origin

Ingileif Ingileif — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"An heir of Ing"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "an heir of ing".

Ingileif is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning an heir of the god Ing.

An heir of Ing — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Ingileif
Transliteration
Ingileif
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Ingileif is built from.

Ingileif is a compound name. Its parts are leifr — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

leifr
Old Norse
“heir, descendant”

Where Ingileif stands.

Ingileif does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ingileifs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Ingileif.

The number behind Ingileif.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ingileif reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.