How common is the surname Snarr?

933 people in the United States had the surname Snarr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 330,917 Americans. It ranked 26,212th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Snarr?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Snarr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Snarr getting more or less common?

More common. 839 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 933 in 2010, up 11%.

The surname Snarr

A nickname surname, carried by 933 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S560

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Snarr is more common than 83.8% of them.

Origin

* As a German surname, Americanized from Schnarr. * As an English surname, nickname from a Middle English derivative of Old Norse snarr (“keen, fast”), from the noun snara (“turn, twist”) (compare snúa); or otherwise related to the noun snare.

Snarr is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 933 people named Snarr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 330,917 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 839.

#26,212

rank among US surnames

933

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+11.2%

change since 2000 (was #27,128)

Who is named Snarr

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

95% of people named Snarr identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Snarr

Snarr 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 Snarr come from?: * As a German surname, Americanized from Schnarr. * As an English surname, nickname from a Middle English derivative of Old Norse snarr (“keen, fast”), from the noun snara (“turn, twist”) (compare snúa); or otherwise related to the noun snare.
How common is the surname Snarr?: 933 people in the United States had the surname Snarr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 330,917 Americans. It ranked 26,212th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Snarr?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Snarr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Snarr?: Snarr is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Snarr getting more or less common?: More common. 839 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 933 in 2010, up 11%.