Ingersoll (surname)

Ingersoll is a surname derived of the Old Norse words "Ingvar" or "Inger" and "sál", common words in found in modern Icelandic, Swedish and Norwegian.[1]

Surnames derived from Old Norse have changed over time due to the splitting of the language into modern Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Greenlandic, Faroese and Danish[2] as well as names being changed with immigration into new countries like the United States.[3]

This surname has split over time into some of these common spellings: Ingersoll, Ingersöll, Ingersol, Ingersole, Ingvarsson, Ingersson, Inkersoll, and Ingwersol.

During the Viking Age, from the late 8th century to the mid-11th century, the Old Norse language expanded through Europe as the Vikings conquered and settled areas like Normandy (Normanni in Old Norse) and Inkersall (Ingvarsál in Old Norse).[4]

• Andrew Ingersoll (born 1940), American astronomer and professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology
• Bob Ingersoll (born 1952), American lawyer and writer
• C. Jared Ingersoll (1894-1988), American president of the Muskogee Company and brother of John H. W. Ingersoll
• Charles Ingersoll (disambiguation), multiple people
• Colin M. Ingersoll (1819-1903), United States. Representative from Connecticut, son of Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll
• Ebon C. Ingersoll (1831-1879), United States Representative from Illinois
• Ernest Ingersoll (1852-1946), American naturalist, writer and explorer
• Ezekiel J. Ingersoll (1838–1925), American politician
• Frederick Ingersoll (1876-1927) American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur who created the world's first amusement park chain
• Jared Ingersoll (1749–1822), United States Constitution signer
• John H. W. Ingersoll, American president of the Muskogee Company and brother of C. Jared Ingersoll
• Jonathan Ingersoll (died 1823), Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1816 to 1823
• Jonathan E. Ingersoll, (born circa 1949) American economist
• Joseph Reed Ingersoll (1786–1868), American lawyer and statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (1789–1872), United States Representative from Connecticut
• Ralph McAllister Ingersoll (1900–1985), American publisher
• Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899), American orator and political leader
• Robert Stephen Ingersoll (1914-2010), American businessman and diplomat
• Robert Sturgis Ingersoll (1891-1973), American president of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1948 to 1964
• Robert Hawley Ingersoll, co-founder of the Ingersoll Watch Company
• Royal R. Ingersoll (1847–1931), Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
• Royal E. Ingersoll (1883–1976), Admiral, U.S. Navy
• Royal R. Ingersoll, II (1913–1942), Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
• Simon Ingersoll (1818–1894), American founder of Ingersoll Rand
• Stuart H. Ingersoll (1898-1983), Admiral, U.S. Navy
• Thomas Ingersoll (1749–1812), Canadian early settler
• Truman Ward Ingersoll (1862 – 1922), US photographer
• William Ingersoll (actor) (1860 – 1936), American actor
• William P. Ingersoll (philanthropist) (1885–1973), American philanthropist, owner of the William Ingersoll Estate

See also

• Ingersoll (disambiguation)
• Ingvar
• Inger (given name)
• Ingvarsson
• Ingerson
• sál

References

1. Veka, Olav (2000). Norsk etternamnleksikon. Det Norske Samlaget.
2. Harbert, Wayne (2007). The Germanic Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Kimmerle, Marjorie (1941). Norwegian-American Surnames in Norwegian-American Studies. pp. 12:1–32.
4. Patrick Hanks; Flavia Hodges (1988). A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-211592-8.