Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name from places called Herlingen (Saar) or Herrlingen (near Ulm).
- Dutch : patronymic from the Germanic personal name Herilo, originally a pet form of one of the compound names with the first element hari, heri ‘army’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Herling ‘unripe grapes’.