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Question:I googled and found this website:
http://www.genealogytoday.com/surname/fi...
and: http://www.geocities.com/janet_ariciu/Sp...

Could not find out anything more. Sorry.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I googled and found this website:
http://www.genealogytoday.com/surname/fi...
and: http://www.geocities.com/janet_ariciu/Sp...

Could not find out anything more. Sorry.

It's german. It means jumper.

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,
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.
hope this helps.

German and i love the jerry springer show!