Last name: HERING

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HERING : This last name is indexed 49,106 times on Geneanet!

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HERING : 1: German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German hærinc ‘herring’ German Hering a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman particularly a seller of herrings or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a herring. In some cases the Jewish surname is artificial. In North America this surname is also an altered form of the German and Jewish variant Häring. Compare Haring.2: German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places and farmhouses so named for instance near Zeesse in Overijssel originally inhabited by a certain Here or Hero and his kin. Here or Hero is a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name with the element heri ‘army’.3: English (London): variant of Herring.

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