Sponholz Family History
Sponholz Name Meaning
German: metonymic occupational name for someone who split wood (for shingles for example) or cut or sold wood for splitting from Middle High German spān ‘(wood) chip shaving splinter’ + holz ‘wood’; alternatively a habitational name from a place so named (Spohnholz) in Mecklenburg.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022