Spruce Family History
Spruce Name Meaning
English: ethnic name for someone from Prussia, Middle English
Spruce, Sprewse. Compare German Preuss. The
adjective spruce ‘neat’, ‘dapper’, which probably derives from
an attributive use of the name of the country, is not recorded until
the late 16th century, too late for it to be a likely source of the
surname. The tree (earlier called spruce fir) has likewise only
come to be known by this name in the last couple of centuries.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Spruce Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Spruce families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Spruce families
|
95 - 188 32 - 94 |
1 - 31 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Spruce families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Spruce census records
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Spruce Family Origin
Spruce Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Spruce
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Spruce Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Spruce census records
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