LING

(origin: Teutonic.) English, long, heath; also, a species of long grass; a long, slender fish.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

LING. Heath, in some dialects, is so called — also a fish ; but a more probable derivation is from one of the two parishes of Ling in Somersetshire and in Norfolk. NEYf LING. Probably Newlyn, a parish in Cornwall.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.