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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Spörl) : nickname from a diminutive of Middle High German spar(e) ‘sparrow’.
  • Nickname for a poor, lowly person, from Middle High German spör ‘poor’, ‘meager’, ‘destitut’.

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