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Have to really guess a bit here ...but the ending seems to be a definitive article (as in Norwegian, my wife's native tongue that puts an -en at the end to mean the). If this is true, my guess would be ...

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Herrin
Dutch: from a pet form of any of various Germanic compound personal names with the first element hari, heri ‘army’.
English: probably a variant of Herring.
Herring
English, Scottish, Dutch, and German: metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, Middle English hering, Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.
German: habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.
Dutch: from a personal name, a derivative of a Germanic compound name with the first element hari, heri ‘army’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of Hering.
Hering
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German hærinc ‘herring’, German Hering, a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a herring or a metonymic occupational name for a fish seller. In some cases the Jewish surname is ornamental.