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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : unexplained.
  • English : apparently a metonymic occupational name either for a maker of roofing shingles or spoons, from Old English spōn ‘chip’, ‘splinter’ (see also Spooner).
  • Possibly an Anglicized or Americanized form of German Spohn (see Spahn).

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