Släkthistoria för Sparry
Sparry Vad efternamn betyder
possibly a variant of Sperry from an Old Scandinavian personal name Sperri attested in the W Midlands by Sperri (the name of a pre-Conquest tenant in Weston upon Trent Staffs 1086 in Domesday Book and by William Speri about 1174 in Saint Thomas Priory Chartulary (Stafford Staffs). The medieval spellings with -arr- in the surnames listed below may reflect an alternative form of the personal name *Sparri comparable to that in the related Middle English word sparre sperre ‘beam pole bar’ to which Old Scandinavian sparri and sperra probably contributed (see OED at spar n. ). Some post-medieval bearers below may belong at (2). apparently from a post-medieval colloquial pronunciation of Sparrow unless the name in (1) was confused with it.
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
