Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish friling ‘spring’, or a Yiddishized form of Fruhling.
- German : from a status name meaning ‘free man’ (as opposed to bondsman in the feudal system), Middle High German vrīling ‘free man’.
- German : habitational name from any of several places named Frieling.
- German : variant of Frühling (see Fruhling).