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spear Name Meaning and History

English: from Middle English spere ‘spear’, hence a nickname for a tall, thin person, or else for a skilled user of the hunting spear. In part it may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a maker of spears

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of spear Families in the US in 1920
Number of spear families
 128-254
 43-127
 1-42
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