The name Henning is indigenous to the North German areas Mecklenburg, Hannover, Hamburg, Holstein and Pommern. Especially the towns Stralsund and Greifswald, in Mecklenburg, near the Baltic Sea is well known as places where the name originated. Both towns formed part of Denmark up until the Thirty Years’ War (1618 — 1648).
Between the years 1300 and 1500 the name HENNING was used as a popular nickname for “the Son of John (Johannes)”. In the old Baltic dialect a rooster was called a “Hen” (hen = male, henne = female). The Baltic (or North German) “ing” was added to indicate that it was a name deduced from the name of a father or ancestor.
The name originated amongst noblemen and knights, such as:
During the 13th and 14th centuries the descendants of these first Hennings spread over the areas today known as Germany, Denmark and Norway. Unfortunately all records from this time were destroyed.
During the 17th and 18th centuries several Hennings moved elsewhere—also to the New World….
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