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I'm pretty sure it's a variant of Shapiro.
Meanings:
Jewish; from Hebrew shapir which means "pretty, lovely".
Or somehow derived from the name of the city of Speyer.
The city of Speyer in Rhenish Bavaria, Germany has given us many name forms. The Jews first settled there at the end of the eleventh century and were compelled to leave in the middle of the fourteenth century. Large numbers of these Jews settled in Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, and Russia and their name variants are Shapiro, Spira, Spire, Spiro, Spero, Chapiro, Sprai, Szpir, Saphir and Spear.
Meanings:
Jewish; from Hebrew shapir which means "pretty, lovely".
Or somehow derived from the name of the city of Speyer.
The city of Speyer in Rhenish Bavaria, Germany has given us many name forms. The Jews first settled there at the end of the eleventh century and were compelled to leave in the middle of the fourteenth century. Large numbers of these Jews settled in Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, and Russia and their name variants are Shapiro, Spira, Spire, Spiro, Spero, Chapiro, Sprai, Szpir, Saphir and Spear.
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