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Swearingen

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : altered form of a habitational name, almost certainly from one of two places in Germany named Schweringen: one in the Hannover region and the other near Bremen.
  • A 17th-century law-enforcement officer by the name of Gerrit van Sweeringen is recorded at New Amstel on the Delaware River.

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