Meanings and history of the name Spurgeon: | Edit. Possibly bestowed upon children as a nod to Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), a Baptist preacher who is sometimes referred to as "the Prince of Preachers". Famous real-life people named Spurgeon: | Edit. Spurgeon Elliot Seewald.
Roman praenomen, or given name, which is of uncertain meaning, probably of Etruscan origin. It may be related to the Late Latin word spurius "of illegitimate birth", which was derived from Etruscan srural "public".
English: occupational name for a maker of spurs, from an agent derivative of Middle English spore, spure 'spur'.
Late Greek name derived from Greek σπυριδιον (spyridion) meaning "basket" or Latin spiritus meaning "spirit". Saint Spyridon was a 4th-century sheep farmer who became the bishop of Tremithus and suffered during the persecutions of Diocletian.
As a Greek name, Spiro may also be spelled Spyro. It comes from the Greek Spiros/Spyros/Speros (Greek: ΣπÏÏος), with a nominative final "s" that is usually dropped when Anglicised. ... In Germany, the surname Spiro originated as a corruption of Speyer, the name of a town in the Rhineland.
