The springer Surname

springer Name Meaning and History

English, German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a lively person or for a traveling entertainer, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle High German springen, Middle Dutch springhen, Yiddish shpringen ‘to jump or leap’.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a fountain or the source of a stream, Middle English spring ‘spring’ + the habitational suffix -er. The same word was also used of a plantation of young trees, and in some cases this may be the source of the surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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springer Family Facts

Distribution of springer Families in the US in 1920

Number of springer families

272-541

91-271

1-90

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 841 - Messages: 2036

Thread	Author	Replies
Springer family, Alabama	Brent Springer	23
Mary Polly Springer m. William Burnett 1802 KY	quilterannette	0
William Springer lived in Chgo,Il	mbackstrom1	2
Springer Family Help	Marymim	60
SPRINGERs of Saratoga County, New York	Melissa_Robards	9
Garrabrant SPRINGER, g-son of Moses SPRINGER and Eliza ACKERMAN???	Melissa_Robards	1
Rose May Springer, NY 1888 - 1966	Toc5871	0
Donald R. Springer, 89, Pittsburgh PA,"	KENNELLYMARKA	0
Springers' In The South.	maryspringer_1	32
Reuben Runyan Springer, 1800 - 1884	donnajo1954_1	0

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