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’.
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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