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Sprott Name Meaning

English and Scottish: nickname perhaps for a small person from Middle English sprot sprat (Old English sprott) ‘small species of herring sprat’. It may also have been used as a personal name. English and Scottish: nickname perhaps for a small thin person from Middle English sprote sprotte (Old English sprota sprot) ‘shoot twig rod’. It is an alternative source of the Old English and early Middle English personal name Sprot (see above). It gave rise to Sprott and Sproat and was more or less synonymous with Middle English sprout ‘(new) shoot of a plant bud’. German: probably a habitational name from any of the places called Sprotte (Westphalia Saxony-Anhalt) Sprotta (Silesia).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

Similar surnames: Strutt, Sprout, Pott, Syrett, Sproat, Spratt, Spotts, Shott, Brott

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You can see how Sprott families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Sprott family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Sprott families were found in USA in 1880. In 1911 there were 75 Sprott families living in Ontario. This was about 64% of all the recorded Sprott's in Canada. Ontario had the highest population of Sprott families in 1911.

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There are 1,000 military records available for the last name Sprott. For the veterans among your Sprott ancestors, military collections provide insights into where and when they served, and even physical descriptions.

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Between 1951 and 2004, in the United States, Sprott life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1951, and highest in 1996. The average life expectancy for Sprott in 1951 was 37, and 90 in 2004.

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