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Re: Background on Surname Eugling
The German phone directory lists 7 EUGLINGs, so this is a v e r y rare name.I can't find the name in any of my books, but there are plenty of names ending with -ing or -ling: Rehling, Kiesling ...Sometimes the L is part of the (patronymic) suffix, sometimes it isn't. Many of those names go back to a place name, e.g. Rehling (or Rehlingen). No place called Eugling or Euglingen seems to exist in Germany - but it may have existed in the past.The syllable EUG is not German, it looks Greek to me, probably from the name EUGEN ("well-born").So I see two possible derivations of EUGLING:- Son of Eugen- Someone from Eugling(en), which again derives from EugenBut maybe it is something completely different ...
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