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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern English : from the Old English personal name Sprot, of uncertain origin. It may be derived from Old English sprot ‘sprout’, ‘young shoot’.
  • Northern Irish (County Down) : variant of Spratt.
  • German : probably a habitational name from places named Sprotte (Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt), Sprotta (Silesia).

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