Ronning Family History
- Ronning Name Meaning
- German: probably a variant of Ronnig, from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on run ‘rune’, ‘secret’, the suffix -ing denoting a descendant. Norwegian (Rønning): habitational name from any of over 100 farmsteads named Rønning or Rønningen, notably in eastern Norway and Trøndelag, from Old Norse Ryðningr, from ruð ‘clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 52,051 Historical Documents with Ronning on Ancestry
- 24,543 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,277 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,651 Military Records
- 4,017 Immigration Records
- 14,563 Member Trees
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Number of Ronning families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ronning census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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