Fringer Family History
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Fringer Name Meaning
German: habitational name for someone from Efringen, Baden. possibly a partly Americanized variant of German Wringer, an occupational name for the operator of a cider or oil press or a nickname for an oppressor, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German wringen ‘to twist or turn’, ‘to torture’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Finger, Ringer, Ranger, Finner, Clinger, Springer, Fieger, Feiner