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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Spickermann) : occupational name for someone in charge of a granary, from Middle Low German spiker ‘granary’ + man ‘man’.
  • North German (Spickermann) : habitational name for someone from Spicker or Spieckern in the Rhineland.
  • North German (Spickermann) : metonymic occupational name for a nailsmith, from Middle Low German spiker ‘nail’, ‘bolt’ + man ‘man’.

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