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Ingmire

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Kent) : unexplained.
  • perhaps an Americanized form of German Engemeyer, a topographic name for a tenant farmer who lived in a narrow place, i.e. a deep, narrow valley, from eng ‘narrow’ (see Enge) + Meyer ‘tenant farmer’.

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