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fearing Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Feering, a village in Essex, named from the Old English personal name Fera + -ingas ‘people of’, i.e. ‘(settlement of) Fera’s people’.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Viering, a topographic name for someone from a swampy area, from a derivative of Germanic vir ‘bog’, ‘swamp’, or a variant of Fehring 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of fearing Families in the US in 1920
Number of fearing families
 16-29
 6-15
 1-5
 0
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