Last name: SPANN

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SPANN : This last name is indexed 15,053 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

SPANN : 1: English (Cheshire): from Middle English spann(e) sponn(e) ‘span’ (Old English spann) denoting a footbridge or a narrow strip of land. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by such a place or habitational for someone from a place called with this word for example Spon End in Coventry (Warwickshire) Span in Ventnor (Isle of Wight) and Spon Lane in West Bromwich (Staffordshire). Compare Spong.2: German: nickname for a quarrelsome person from Middle High German span Middle Low German spenne ‘disagreement dispute quarrel’.3: Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Špan (see Span 3 4 and 6) and Czech Špán (see Span 5).

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