Sparks
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Son of Spark
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sparks is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 5.2K(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 5.7K
- CACanada≈1 in 6.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 485 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Son of Spark.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sparks counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Sparks | 9 |
| US United States | 63,440 | 1 in 5.2K | 63K | Sparks | 485 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 6K | Sparks | 190 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 38K | listed | — | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 1 | Sparks | 167 |
| IS Iceland | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | listed | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 20 | 1 in 5.7K | 20 | — | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sparks is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, indefinite genitive singular of spark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jared Sparksb. 1789USAmerican historian, educator, and Unitarian minister (1789-1866)
- Ned Sparksb. 1883CAactor (1883-1957)
- Chauncey Sparksb. 1884USAmerican politician (1884-1968)
- Theodore Austin-Sparksb. 1888GBBritish Christian evangelist/author (1888–1971)
- Steve Sparksb. 1949GBBritish volcanologist (born 1949)
- Nicholas Sparksb. 1965USAmerican writer and novelist
- Hal Sparksb. 1969USAmerican actor (born 1969)
- Paul Sparksb. 1971USAmerican actor
- Jordin Sparksb. 1989USAmerican singer
- Anthony SparksUSAmerican television writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 63K | #533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 62K | #481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 61K | #544 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6K | #1,307 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 20 | #203 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sparks mean, and where does it come from?
- Son of Spark. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Sparks have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 164 thousand people named Sparks in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sparks.
- Where is Sparks most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sparks is densest in the United States — about 1 in 5.2 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sparks?
- In the United States, the national register counted 63,440 people named Sparks in 2010, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sparksThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sparks”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.