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    The surname Sprout

    A surname, carried by 1,111 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S163

    Sprout: #23,002 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sprout #23,002, 1,111 people Sprout: #23,002 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sprout #23,002, 1,111 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sprout is more common than 85.8% of them.

    Origin

    * As a Dutch surname, from spruit (“sprout, shoot”) * As an English and Scottish surname, spelling variant of Sprott

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,111 people named Sprout in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 277,899 Americans. That is down 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,186.

    #23,002
    rank among US surnames
    1,111
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -6.3%
    change since 2000 (was #20,727)

    Who is named Sprout

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

    96% of people named Sprout identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Sprout

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sprout come from?
    * As a Dutch surname, from spruit (“sprout, shoot”) * As an English and Scottish surname, spelling variant of Sprott
    How common is the surname Sprout?
    1,111 people in the United States had the surname Sprout in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 277,899 Americans. It ranked 23,002nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sprout?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sprout identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sprout getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,186 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,111 in 2010, down 6.3%.