Ingram surname meaning

Ingram is an English and Scottish surname from the Germanic personal name Engelram or Ingram. The name is traditionally analyzed with an element associated with Ing, a Germanic divine or ancestral name, and one associated with a raven. Medieval forms such as Ingeram and Engelram changed as they passed through Norman and English records. The personal name could create unrelated surname families wherever it was used. Ingraham, Engram, and related spellings are historical neighbors, not proof of one branch. Parent’s name is the high-confidence catalog type because the surname preserves an ancestor’s given name.