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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Speckmann) : topographic name for someone who lived by a path through a swampy area, Middle Low German specke. In some cases, it may have been a metonymic occupational name for someone who construced such paths, usually from brush, soil, or the like.
  • North German (Speckmann) : habitational name for someone from places named Specke or Specken in northern Germany and Holland.
  • North German (Speckmann) : variant of Speck 1, with the addition of Middle High German man ‘man’.

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