English: topographic name from Middle English spong
‘narrow strip of land’, or a habitational name from Spong Farm in
Elmstead, Kent, which is named with this word.
Swedish:
topographic or ornamental name from spång ‘footbridge’,
‘plank’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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