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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Döring) : ethnic name for someone from Thuringia (German Thüringen). The region is named from its former occupation by the T(h)uringii, a Germanic tribe.
  • German (Döring) : from a personal name based on cognate of turren ‘to dare’.

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