Family name origins & meanings
- English (Norfolk) : habitational name from Spaunton in North Yorkshire, so named from Old Norse spánn ‘shingle’, ‘wooden tile’ + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, i.e. ‘settlement with shingled roofs’.
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