Barringer
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Barringer
Frequency: (2332)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Americanized spelling of German Behringer.
FOREBEARS: Rufus Barringer (1821-95) was the grandson of Paulus Behringer of Württemberg, who went first to Philadelphia in 1743 and later settled in NC.
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