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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : descriptive nickname from Greek spanos ‘clean shaven’, ‘hairless’. In Greek this term is often compounded with a personal name, e.g. Spanovassilis ‘Basil the hairless’, Spanomanolis ‘Emanuel the hairless’, etc.

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