Family name origins & meanings
- German : topographic name for someone living by a round village green field or a metonymic occupational name for a baker of round pastries, from Middle High German kring(e) ‘ring’, ‘circle’.
- German : from the name of St. Quirin(us), especially in Rhineland.
- Danish : from kring ‘circle (of people)’; also a nickname meaning ‘kind’ or ‘quick’.
- Swedish : probably a soldier’s name from Old Swedish or dialect kring ‘quick’, ‘lively’.