The surname Sneath
A Norse place surname, carried by 651 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex S530
Origin
Norse origin
Habitational surname from Snaith in East Yorkshire, so called from Old Norse sneið (“cut off piece of land”).
Sneath is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 651 people named Sneath in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 474,263 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 620.
Who is named Sneath
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Sneath identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
- Two or more races 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Sneath has the Soundex code S530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S530.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Sneath come from?
- Habitational surname from Snaith in East Yorkshire, so called from Old Norse sneið (“cut off piece of land”).
- How common is the surname Sneath?
- 651 people in the United States had the surname Sneath in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 474,263 Americans. It ranked 34,707th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Sneath?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Sneath identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Sneath?
- Sneath is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Sneath getting more or less common?
- More common. 620 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 651 in 2010, up 5.0%.