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speight Name Meaning and History

English (now chiefly Yorkshire): nickname from Middle English speght ‘woodpecker’, probably from an unrecorded Old English word akin to specan ‘to speak, talk, chatter’. Compare Speak.

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Distribution of speight Families in the US in 1920
Number of speight families
 86-169
 29-85
 1-28
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