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    The surname Snare

    A surname, carried by 762 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S560

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Snare is more common than 81.1% of them.

    Origin

    * As a Norwegian surname, from several farms whose name derive from snar (“thicket, brushwood”), perhaps related to Old Norse snarpr (“coarse, rough, sharp”). * As an English surname, variant of Snarr.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 762 people named Snare in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 405,178 Americans. That is down 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 774.

    #30,600
    rank among US surnames
    762
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.6%
    change since 2000 (was #28,912)

    Who is named Snare

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Snare identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Snare

    Snare has the Soundex code S560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S560.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Snare come from?
    * As a Norwegian surname, from several farms whose name derive from snar (“thicket, brushwood”), perhaps related to Old Norse snarpr (“coarse, rough, sharp”). * As an English surname, variant of Snarr.
    How common is the surname Snare?
    762 people in the United States had the surname Snare in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 405,178 Americans. It ranked 30,600th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Snare?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Snare identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Snare getting more or less common?
    Less common. 774 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 762 in 2010, down 1.6%.