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    The surname Spratling

    An English nickname surname, carried by 643 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S163

    Spratling: #35,057 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Spratling #35,057, 643 people Spratling: #35,057 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Spratling #35,057, 643 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spratling is more common than 78.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Nickname for an old or infirm man, from Middle English sprakeling (“one with creaking legs”).

    Spratling is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 643 people named Spratling in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 480,164 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 534.

    #35,057
    rank among US surnames
    643
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +20.4%
    change since 2000 (was #38,890)

    Who is named Spratling

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

    51% of people named Spratling identified as Black (not Hispanic), 45% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 51%
    • White (not Hispanic) 45%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Spratlin

    Surnames that sound like Spratling

    Spratling has the Soundex code S163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S163.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Spratling come from?
    Nickname for an old or infirm man, from Middle English sprakeling (“one with creaking legs”).
    How common is the surname Spratling?
    643 people in the United States had the surname Spratling in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 480,164 Americans. It ranked 35,057th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Spratling?
    In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Spratling identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 45% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Spratling?
    Spratling is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Spratling getting more or less common?
    More common. 534 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 643 in 2010, up 20%.
    What are other spellings of Spratling?
    Spratlin.