Schwing Family History
Schwing Name Meaning
German:: metonymic occupational name for someone whose job was to swingle flax i.e. to beat the flax with a swingle in order to remove the woody parts of the plant prior to spinning from Middle High German swinge ‘swingle’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). habitational name from any of the places called Schwinge (near Stade and in Pomerania) or Schwingen (Bavaria). Compare Swing .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022