Fearing Family History
Fearing Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Feering a village in Essex named from the Old English personal name Fēra + -ingas ‘people of’ i.e. ‘(settlement of) Fēra's people’. Perhaps also derived from Fring Norfolk. Americanized form of German Viering a topographic name for someone from a swampy area from a derivative of ancient Germanic vir ‘bog swamp’ or a variant of Fehring
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022