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bing Name Meaning and History

  1. English: of uncertain derivation; probably a topographic name for someone living near a bing, a northern dialect word recorded with the senses ‘heap’, ‘bin’, ‘receptacle’ (probably from Old Norse bingr ‘stall’).
  2. Jewish (western Ashkenazic) and Danish: habitational name from Bing, a shortened form of Bingen.
  3. Danish: metonymic occupational name, from bing ‘storage bin for grain’, for someone who either made or used such containers.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bing Families in the US in 1920
Number of bing families
 43-83
 15-42
 1-14
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