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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Behringer.
  • Rufus Barringer (1821–95) was the grandson of Paulus Behringer of Württemberg, who went first to Philadelphia in 1743 and later settled in NC.

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