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spence Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: metonymic occupational name for a servant employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’, ‘storeroom’ (a reduced form of Old French despense, from a Late Latin derivative of dispendere, past participle dispensus, ‘to weigh out or dispense’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of spence Families in the US in 1920
Number of spence families
 176-350
 59-175		 1-58
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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