Släkthistoria för Tongs
Tongs Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Tonge with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. Some place-names in Tonge (1) are recorded in the medieval period with -s spellings; for example Tonge (Kent) as Tonges in 125 Alternatively some medieval bearers may reflect the plural form of Middle English tonge ‘tongs forceps’: see Tonge (2).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
