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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from Efringen, Baden.
  • possibly a partly Americanized variant of German Wringer, an occupational name for the operator of a cider or oil press or a nickname for an oppressor, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German wringen ‘to twist or turn’, ‘to torture’.

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