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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from either of two places called Behringen, near Soltau and in Thuringia, or from Böhringen in Württemberg.
  • German : patronymic from Bering, Berning, or some other personal name with the Germanic element bero ‘bear’.

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