Speckmann Family History
Speckmann Name Meaning
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a path through a swampy area Middle Low German specke. In some cases it may have been a metonymic occupational name for someone who constructed such paths usually from brush soil or the like. North German: habitational name for someone from any of the places called Specke or Specken in northern Germany and Holland. German: variant of Speck 1 with the addition of Middle High German man ‘man’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022