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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name from Middle High German hæringer ‘herring seller’.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Hering, near Darmstadt, or from any of several places called Heringen, for example near Limburg and in Saxony.

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