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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Špehař) : from an Old Czech vocabulary word meaning ‘spy’.
  • Slovenian (Špehar) : occupational name for a seller of bacon, from špeh ‘bacon’ + the agent noun suffix -ar.

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