Ring

in the US

There are 13,074 people with the last name "Ring" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

NameRank
Ring 2,137
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  1. is 2,133rd most common Nieto
  2. is 2,134th most common Call
  3. is 2,135th most common Tabor
  4. is 2,136th most common Goodson
  5. is 2,137th most common Ring
  6. is 2,138th most common Fay
  7. is 2,139th most common Bellamy
  8. is 2,140th most common Hayward
  9. is 2,141st most common Titus

Similar Names and Nicknames

Rand, Ringer, Ringler, Runge, Ringo, Rondeau, Range, Ringgold, Ringel, Ringle

Most Common First Names for Ring

John, Robert, David, James, Michael, William, Richard, Mary, Thomas, Charles



Meaning & History

English, German, and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of rings (from Middle English ring, Middle High German rinc, Middle Dutch ring), either to be worn as jewelry or as component parts of chain-mail, harnesses, and other objects. In part it may also have arisen as a nickname for a wearer of a ring.

Scandinavian: from ring ‘ring’, probably an ornamental name but possibly applied in the same sense as 3 or 1.

German: topographic name from Middle High German, Middle Low German rink, rinc ‘circle’.

Irish (eastern County Cork): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Rinn (see Reen).


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