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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German sprunc ‘spring’, topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or well (see also Spring 2, Sprang).
  • Dutch : variant of Sprong.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname or ornamental name from German Sprung ‘jump’, ‘leap’, ‘crack’.

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