Dutch: unexplained.English: apparently a metonymic
occupational name either for a maker of roofing shingles or spoons,
from Old English spon ‘chip’, ‘splinter’ (see also
Spooner).Possibly an Anglicized or Americanized form of
German Spohn (see Spahn). IGI also 31 English, 24
German; not in RW, DEB, HB, FREQSTATS, kh.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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