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goring Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from places in Oxfordshire and West Sussex named Goring, from Old English Garingas ‘people of Gara’, a short form of the various compound names with the first element gar ‘spear’.
  2. German (Göring): see Goering.

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goring Family Facts

Distribution of goring Families in the US in 1920
Number of goring families
 22-41
 8-21
 1-7
 0
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