Pringle
The origin and history of Pringle.
Etymology
As a surname, it is habitational, from a place near Stow in Roxburghshire, formerly called Hop(p)ringle, from Middle English hop (“enclosed valley”) plus a name of Old Norse origin made up of the byname Prjónn (“pin, peg”, cognate with English preen) and an unidentified second element. As the name of a borough of Pennsylvania, it honours Thomas Pringle. As the name of a town in South Dakota, it began as a stage stop on the Sidney-Custer Trail, run by Henry Pringle.
