Goring

 

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Goring

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From Old English Garingas (“people of Gara”), a short form of the various compound names with the first element gār (“spear, arrow, dart”).

Goring (countable and uncountable, plural Gorings)

1. A village in Goring-on-Thames parish, South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames (OS grid ref SU6080).

   Synonym: Goring-on-Thames

2. A habitational surname from Old English.

• Goring-by-Sea

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Goring is the 35345^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 637 individuals. Goring is most common among White (54.95%) and Black/African American (35.79%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Goring”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 67.

• gringo, orging