Sparrow

Sparrow is the 4,554th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,559 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 39,500.

By the numbers

People: 7,559
Rank: 4,554th
How common: 1 in 39,500
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Sparow.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.8%
Black, not Hispanic 23.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Sparrow

Hélène Sparrow (1891–1970)Polish microbiologist and public health pioneer
Rory Sparrow (born 1958)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Sparrow

Also a first name

Sparrow has been given to 1,193 American babies as a first name since 1977, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

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.