Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a dealer in spices, from Middle High German ingeber (from Old French gingebre), Yiddish ingber. The word is ultimately, like the spice, of Oriental origin.
- German : from the Germanic personal name Ingobert, formed with Ing- (see Ingle 3) + berht ‘famous’, ‘shining’.