Spears surname meaning

Spears is an English and Scottish surname, Spear with a post-medieval excrescent -s. Spear itself is a nickname from Middle English spere (Old English spere), “spear”—applied to a tall, thin person, or to someone known for making or handling spears in hunt or war. The name has sometimes been confused in records with Pearse. Speer, Speers, and Speares are closely related spellings. Nickname is the catalog type because the core image is the spear as a descriptive label; any pure maker’s-trade reading is secondary. Confidence in that Spear chain is high.