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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Old Norse personal name Spakr.
  • Respelling of Jewish, Ukrainian, and Belorussian Shpak, a nickname from Ukrainian and Belorussian shpak ‘starling’. In the case of Jewish bearers, it is generally an ornamental name.

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