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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Oxfordshire and West Sussex named Goring, from Old English Gāringas ‘people of Gāra’, a short form of the various compound names with the first element gār ‘spear’.
  • German (Göring) : see Goering.

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