Erling Family History
Erling Name Meaning
North German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Erl ‘free man noble warrior’. German: habitational name from any of several places in Bavaria named Erling or Erlingen. German: from a short form of any of the ancient Germanic personal names formed with heri hari ‘army’ as the first element + the personal suffix -ling. Swedish: from the personal name Erling (Old Norse Erlingr); see 1 above. Swedish: variant of Ärling a habitational name from a placename such as Ärla + the suffix -ing ‘belonging to’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022