Sparks

Sparks is the 544th most common surname in the United States, shared by 61,073 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,894.

By the numbers

People: 61,073
Rank: 544th
How common: 1 in 4,894
Per 100,000: 20.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sparks described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.8%
Black, not Hispanic 10.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Sparks

Nicholas Sparks (born 1965)American writer and novelist
Jordin Sparks (born 1989)American singer
Hal Sparks (born 1969)American actor
Paul Sparks (born 1971)American actor
Ned Sparks (1883–1957)actor
Chauncey Sparks (1884–1968)American politician

People named Sparks with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sparks

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.