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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : habitational name from aan ’s boden huis, ’s Boden ‘at the house of the messenger’, the name of a house in Amel in Deidenberg, in the Belgian province of Liège.
  • Dutch : habitational name from Spaden. There is a place so called in Schiffdorf, Lower Saxony, and it was the former name of Spouwen in the Belgian province of Limburg.
  • Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a laborer who used a spade, from Low German Spaden ‘spade’.
  • German : probably of the same origin as 2 and 3.

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