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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of the German topographic name Espenscheidt ‘pasture at the crossroads’, from Middle High German espan ‘open space’, ‘unenclosed pasture’ + scheit ‘crossroads’ (see Scheidt).

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