Dorning Family History
Dorning Name Meaning
Irish: variant of Dornan . Probably an altered form of German Dornig which is probably a nickname for someone with a sharp tongue from an adjectival derivative of Middle High German Middle Low German dorn ‘thorn’. The suffixes -ig and -ing were often interchanged in Pennsylvania German and elsewhere. The name may also refer to a sloe bush.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022