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The kring Surname

kring Name Meaning and History

  1. 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’.
  2. German: from the name of St. Quirin(us), especially in Rhineland.
  3. Danish: from kring ‘circle (of people)’; also a nickname meaning ‘kind’ or ‘quick’.
  4. Swedish: probably a soldier’s name from Old Swedish or dialect kring ‘quick’, ‘lively’.

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

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Distribution of kring Families in the US in 1920
Number of kring families
 38-73
 13-37		 1-12
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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