Spanier Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Sharing the Spanier name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Meaning of the name

Spanier began as a German family name. The usual explanation, from Elsdon Smith, is “one who came from Spain, a Spaniard”.

That makes it a habitational name, first given to someone from that place. The name also appears as Spanjer. The 2010 census count for Spanier in the United States was 1,253, good for rank 20,996. INSEE counts 257 people born in France with the Spanier surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1961–1970.

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