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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a musician or minstrel, from Middle Low German spel ‘play’ + man ‘man’.
  • German (Spellmann) : habibtational name for someone from Spelle near Rheine or Spellen near Wesel.
  • English : variant of Speller.

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