Is There a Speyer Coat of Arms?

Speyer is a German surname. Smith's 1956 dictionary gives the meaning “one who came from Speyer, in Bavaria”.

Researching the origin

Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from.

How common is Speyer?

Speyer ranked 37,691 in the 2010 US Census, with 590 people answering to the name. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames. INSEE counts 178 people born in France with the Speyer surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1981–1990. Births ran at 10 in 1891–1900 and 18 in 1991–2000.

Speyer coat of arms

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Speyer coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line.

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