Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized form of German Spanhauer, an occupational name for a lath cutter or for a carpenter, from Middle High German spān ‘wood chip’ + -hauer, an agent derivative of hauen ‘to cut or hew’, or ‘to knock’.
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