Frequency: (477)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Dutch: from Middle Dutch sprute ‘sprout’, ‘shoot’, either a nickname for a young or delicate person, or possibly, in the sense of ‘offshoot’, ‘descendant’, a nickname for someone linked by birth to a distinguished local family.
2. Scottish: variant of Sprott.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
