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speyer Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from the German city of Speyer, which had a large Jewish population in the Middle Ages.

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speyer Family Facts

Distribution of speyer Families in the US in 1920
Number of speyer families
 18-34
 7-17
 1-6
 0
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