The Sprinkle surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,265 people carried this name — #5,549 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 47,200 people counted. That is up 7% from 5,858 in 2000.

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In print

Sprinkle in American newspapers,
1917–1923.

Newspaper page from East St. Louis Daily Journal carrying the name Sprinkle
East St. Louis Daily Journal 1923-11-09
Newspaper page from The Theocrat carrying the name Sprinkle
The Theocrat 1917-02-10

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Sprinkle in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1950s.

81 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sprinkle. The most, 15, date from the 1900s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 1.9 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 29
Victoria 24
New South Wales 12
South Australia 6
Western Australia 6

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sprinkle.

Who carried it

People named Sprinkle,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Ed Sprinkle
    Ed Sprinkle 1923–2014 · American football player
  • Hugh Sprinkle 1896–1961 · American football player
  • Ronald Sprinkle 1930–2021 · psychologist
  • Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin 1945–2022 · librarian
  • Jason Sprinkle 1969–2005 · artist

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Sprinkle,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States363 records

363 records of the Sprinkle name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 242
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 89
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 14
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 7
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 6
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 3
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Vernon Patrick Sprinkle

    Born 1948; from Portland, Oregon. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1967 in Kontum, South Vietnam. Buried at Willamette National Cemetery, Oregon.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Claude D. Sprinkle

    Born 1918 in North Carolina. Enlisted 1942 at Camp Croft, South Carolina; farmer. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at Skyline Memory Gardens, Mount Airy, North Carolina.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Charlie Roy Sprinkle

    U.S. Army veteran of World War I. Born 1885, died 1966; buried at Mountain Home National Cemetery, Tennessee.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 363 records for Sprinkle in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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