Spear Family History
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Spear Name Meaning
English: from Middle English spere ‘spear’, hence a nickname for a tall, thin person, or else for a skilled user of the hunting spear. In part it may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a maker of spears
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Speer, Pear, Shear, Sperr, Stead, Spoor, Soper, Fear, Spohr, Spears