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.