Speer Family History
Speer Name Meaning
German and Dutch: from Middle High German, Middle Dutch
sper ‘spear’, hence a nickname for a tall, thin person, or else
for a skilled user of the hunting spear. In part it may also have been
a metonymic occupational name for a maker of spears.German:
nickname for someone thought to resemble a sparrow, Middle High German
spar(e) ‘sparrow’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of
Speyer.Northern Irish: variant spelling of
Speir.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Speer
Name Distribution of Speer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Speer families
 91 - 179  31 - 90 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Speer families
|
112 - 221 38 - 111 |
1 - 37 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Speer families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Speer census records
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Speer Family Origin
Speer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Speer
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Speer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Speer census records
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