nickname for a miser or someone who guarded his possessions jealously, from Middle High German nerung, narung, Middle Low German neringe ‘food’, ‘livelihood’.
habitational name from Nehringen in Pomerania, or a topographic name from nehrung, nehring ‘long narrow spit of land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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