Sprinkle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/spɹɪŋkəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sprinkle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 53K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 93K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 330 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
6,265 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sprinkle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 6,265 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Sprinkle | 330 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Sprinkle | 24 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Sprinkle | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Sprinkle | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Sprinkle | 28 |
| LR Liberia | #391 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Sprinkle | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Sprinkle | 2 |
6,265 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hugh Sprinkleb. 1896USAmerican football player (1896-1961)
- Ed Sprinkleb. 1923USAmerican football player (1923–2014)
- Ronald Sprinkleb. 1930USAmerican psychologist
- James Thomas Sprinkleb. 1943USAmerican paleontologist
- Annie Sprinkleb. 1954USAmerican sex educator and artist (born 1954)
- Michael Sprinkleb. 1968USAmerican politician
- Jason Sprinkleb. 1969USAmerican artist (1969-2005)
- Aaron Sprinkleb. 1974USAmerican record producer
- Preston M. Sprinkleb. 1976USAmerican New Testament scholar
- Jeremy Sprinkleb. 1994USAmerican football tight end
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,549 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.9K | #5,461 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.6K | #5,922 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sprinkle mean, and where does it come from?
- To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sprinkle?
- A machine transcription gives /spɹɪŋkəl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sprinkle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Sprinkle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sprinkle.
- How common is the name Sprinkle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,265 people named Sprinkle in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Sprinkle compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Sprinkle is the 391st most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sprinkleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sprinkle” — the 391st most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.