Spittle Family History

English: from Middle English spitel ‘hospital infirmary religious house of the Knights Hospitallers’ (Old French (h)ospital) used either as a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hospital or a nickname for someone who worked in one.

English: habitational name from any of the places called with spitel such as Spital-in-the-Street (Lincolnshire) or any of several minor places in northern and Midland counties of England.

Americanized form of East German Spittel, a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in an infirmary from Middle High German spital spittel ‘hospital’.