Easy Best Answer! What Nationality is this name?

Question

It's a last name - Speiss. It rhymes with "niece," and "peace," and not pronounced "Spice" as the spelling suggests. So, what Nationality do you think it's from?

Answer 1

German

Answer 2

German?

Answer 3

It's Germanic in origin I'm sure but as far as what nationality who knows.

Answer 4

Swiss and Austrian

Answer 5

yeah its of some kind of germanic origin, but def. not german. if it was infact german they would pronounce it "spice" because in germany they pronounce "ei" like an i and "ie" like a long e.

Answer 6

Scottish?

Answer 7

I suspect it is connected to this name -

Speiser : origins & meanings:

German: occupational name for a steward in charge of the supply and distribution of provisions in a great house or monastery, from an agent derivative of Middle High German spīse ‘food’, ‘supplies’, (via Old High German from a reduced form of Late Latin expe(n)sa (pecunia) ‘(money) expended’).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a grocer, from a later semantic development of the same word as in 1.

The German word for food is 'speise'.

Answer 8

The early census has immigrants from Germany, Prussia and Alsace.