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The fringer Surname

fringer Name Meaning and History

  1. German: habitational name for someone from Efringen, Baden.
  2. possibly a partly Americanized variant of German Wringer, an occupational name for the operator of a cider or oil press or a nickname for an oppressor, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German wringen ‘to twist or turn’, ‘to torture’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The fringer name in History

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Distribution of fringer Families in the US in 1920
Number of fringer families
 8-14
 3-7		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Fringer's in Maryland leigh1947 13
Fringer, Hilda Irene (OBIT MD 11-30-2005) myobituarysite 0
Fringer, Gillian R. "Becky"(OBIT PA 10-30-2005) myobituarysite 0
Fringer Donna 1
Magdalene Fringer Patricia Daniels 7
Fringers From Ohio kayatoh1 4
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Jacob Fringer Gail Fringer 2
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