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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a seller of spices, Middle English spic(i)er (a reduced form of Old French espicier, Late Latin speciarius, an agent derivative of species ‘spice’, ‘groceries’, ‘merchandise’).
  • Jewish (from Poland) : variant of Spitzer.

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