63%RatingSave Gender Feminine Usage Yiddish (Rare) Scripts שפּרינצע(Yiddish) Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Possibly a Yiddish form of Esperanza. This is the name of Tevye's fourth daughter in the musical Fiddler on the Roof (1964), based on the late 19th-century Yiddish stories of Sholem Aleichem. Related NamesFamily Tree·Details DiminutiveShprintzel Categories Fiddler on the Roof characters, hope, uncertain etymology, virtues