# Sprott (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sprott/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 682 |
| US rank (2010) | 33,450 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 452,706 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.2% (674 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from Old English Sprot, possibly from the root of sprout. * As a German surname, from the placename Sprotte.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sprott in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 77% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 18% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Similar surnames

Spratt, Sprout, Shepherd, Shepard, Sheppard, Schubert, Seibert, Seifert, Swafford, Spradlin, Siebert, Shephard.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.