Americanized form of German Spanhauer, an occupational name
for a lath cutter or for a carpenter, from Middle High German
span ‘wood chip’ + -hauer, an agent derivative of
hauen ‘to cut or hew’, or ‘to knock’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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