Is There a Spangenberg Coat of Arms?

Wikidata records Spangenberg as a German family name. Counting heads is the honest place to start with Spangenberg.

Heraldry and the Spangenberg name

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Spangenberg, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

Surname origin

A family Bible, a parish register or an emigration record often gives the first firm date for a Spangenberg ancestor. The meaning of Spangenberg is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records.

The 2010 US Census counted 1,797 people named Spangenberg, ranking it number 16,108 among American surnames. Get the complete Spangenberg report, with a museum-style coat of arms.