Entry № 9958 · English origin

Sparrow Sparrow — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SPAR-oh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"The sparrow bird (modern American word-name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "the sparrow bird (modern american word-name)".

Sparrow is from the Old English spearwa — the small bird known for resourcefulness and ubiquity. The biblical sparrows in Matthew 10:29 ("Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?

The sparrow bird.

The name in its native script.

Sparrow
Transliteration
Sparrow
Pronunciation
/ ˈspær.oʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sparrow stands.

Sparrow does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sparrows before her.

Real people
Sparrow James Midnight Madden
Nicole Richie + Joel Madden's son.
born 2009
In fiction
Captain Jack Sparrow
Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean.
2003

Names connected to Sparrow.

The number behind Sparrow.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sparrow reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.