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spoon Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch: unexplained.
  2. English: apparently a metonymic occupational name either for a maker of roofing shingles or spoons, from Old English spon ‘chip’, ‘splinter’ (see also Spooner).
  3. Possibly an Anglicized or Americanized form of German Spohn (see Spahn).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The spoon name in History

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Distribution of spoon Families in the US in 1920
Number of spoon families
 25-48
 9-24		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 119 - Messages: 289
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Thomas Spoon Frances Snider 6
Osa William Thompson rosiejohnson141 0
Levy Spoon rosiejohnson141 0
Early SPOON marriages, Guilford, NC Grani6 3
Spoon family tree Matthew Spoon 6
my last name is spoon jasminspoon 2
Philip B. Spoon - Pike Co Alabama 1880 Census JudyCaden 2
Herman F. Spoon Glenda Nothnagle 6
Elizebeth(Liza)Cathrine SPOON - NC /OH 1840 John Laws 5
Ruby Spoon from Missouri Jon Shumaker 5
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