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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place called Espe or Espa, or a topographic name from Middle Low German espe ‘aspen’, Middle High German aspe.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse espi ‘aspen’.

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