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The spier Surname

spier Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from an agent derivative of Middle English (e)spi(en) ‘to watch’, hence an occupational name for a lookout or watchman, or a nickname for a nosy person.
  2. Scottish: variant spelling of Spear.
  3. German: nickname for a small person, from Middle Low German spir ‘trifle’, ‘small piece’.
  4. German: habitational name from any of several places named Spier, notably the city in the Palatinate, now spelled Speyer (see Speyer, Spiering).
  5. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Spiro.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of spier Families in the US in 1920
Number of spier families
 35-67
 12-34		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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