Doering

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Döring, from either:

• A habitational name for someone from Thuringia, itself named for the Thuringi, a Germanic tribe.
• A personal name based on a cognate of Middle High German turren (“to dare”).

Proper noun

Doering (plural Doerings)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Doering is the 7,044^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4,754 individuals. Doering is most common among White (95.04%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Doering”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 473.

Anagrams

• Gironde, Negroid, eroding, groined, ignored, negroid, nigredo, redoing