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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Old English personal name Hringwulf.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on hring ‘ring’.
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a ring maker (see Ringler).
  • German : altered spelling of Ringel, an Old Prussian personal name.

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