# Sneath (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sneath/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old Norse.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norse |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 651 |
| US rank (2010) | 34,707 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 474,263 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.0% (620 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from Snaith in East Yorkshire, so called from Old Norse sneið (“cut off piece of land”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sneath in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Similar surnames

Snead, Sant, Smith, Schmidt, Schmitt, Sneed, Schmid, Smyth, Smoot, Santoyo, Shumate, Sandhu.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.