Spurinnia gens

The gens Spurinnia was a minor plebeian family of Etruscan descent at ancient Rome.

No members of this gens are mentioned in ancient writers, but several are known from inscriptions.

[2] The inscriptions of this gens, mostly belonging to the imperial era, and all of which come from either Rome or Etruria, demonstrate that the feminine form was Spurinnia.

As a cognomen, Spurinna appears in the Vestricia gens, the members of which gained considerable fame from the time of Caesar to that of Trajan, but the majority of epigraphic occurrences are as a nomen gentilicium.

[1][3] The inscriptions of the Spurinnae indicate that their favoured praenomina were Lucius, Publius, and Quintus, three of the most common names throughout Roman history.