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Type Surname (from location)
Usage Upper German (Rare)
Other Forms FormsThiering, Thiring, Thuring, Thuringer, Turinger, Duringer, Diringer, Diring, During
Meaning & History
The name Thirring has many different forms/variant spellings. These include Thiering, Thiring, Thuring,Thuringer, Turinger, Duringer, Diringer, Diring and During. One of the reasons for all the variant spellings is that the church scribes in Hungary originally all recorded the name differently. All these surnames including Thirring were based on the original surname Thuringer. The surname Thuringer means "Thuringian forest" and was based on the Thuringian forest in Thruingia, Germany.The Thirring family originally came from Thuringia, Germany, and later moved to Hungary and Austria.