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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English and Scottish : of uncertain origin, possibly a patronymic from the Old English byname Spēd, meaning ‘success’, ‘prosperity’.
  • Scottish and northern Irish : reduced and altered variant of McSpadden. (McSpedding is attested as an Irish name with this origin.)

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