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The surname Sprankle

A surname, carried by 1,353 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S165

Sprankle: #19,865 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sprankle #19,865, 1,353 people Sprankle: #19,865 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sprankle #19,865, 1,353 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sprankle is more common than 87.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,353 people named Sprankle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 228,193 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,265.

#19,865
rank among US surnames
1,353
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+7%
change since 2000 (was #19,710)

Who is named Sprankle

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Sprankle identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 93%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sprankle

Sprankle has the Soundex code S165, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S165.

Questions

How common is the surname Sprankle?
1,353 people in the United States had the surname Sprankle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 228,193 Americans. It ranked 19,865th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sprankle?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Sprankle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sprankle getting more or less common?
More common. 1,265 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,353 in 2010, up 7.0%.