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spruce Name Meaning and History

English: ethnic name for someone from Prussia, Middle English Spruce, Sprewse. Compare German Preuss. The adjective spruce ‘neat’, ‘dapper’, which probably derives from an attributive use of the name of the country, is not recorded until the late 16th century, too late for it to be a likely source of the surname. The tree (earlier called spruce fir) has likewise only come to be known by this name in the last couple of centuries.

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

Distribution of spruce Families in the US in 1920
Number of spruce families
 10-18
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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