Spencer is a given name of British origin, that means "steward" or "administrator".
It is a shortened form of the English word dispenser, which derives from Anglo-French dispensour, from Old French dispenseor, from Latin dispensatorem, the agent noun of dispensare, meaning "to disperse, administer, and distribute (by weight)".
[2] Its usage peaked in 1998 with 4,619 baby boys named Spencer in that year.
[2] Its usage as a female given name began to gradually increase in the late 1970s before suddenly taking off in the mid-1980s.
Spencer the Painter, a character from the British kids television programme, Balamory