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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • probably an Americanized form of German Spickert, Speckar(d)t, or Speckhardt, a topographic name for someone who lived by or worked on a plank road, from Middle Low German, Middle High German specke, spicke ‘raised dam through swampy terrain’, ‘plank road’.

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