Herring Family History
Herring Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Dutch, and German: metonymic occupational
name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, Middle English
hering, Dutch haring, Middle High German
hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the
sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found
in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like
neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.German: habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.Dutch: from a personal name, a derivative of a Germanic compound
name with the first element hari, heri ‘army’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of Hering.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Herring Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Herring families
 228 - 453  77 - 227 |
 1 - 76  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Herring families
|
370 - 738 124 - 369 |
1 - 123 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Herring families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Herring Family Origin
Herring Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Herring
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Herring Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Herring census records
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