How common is the surname Snedeker?

2,056 people in the United States had the surname Snedeker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,168 Americans. It ranked 14,507th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Snedeker?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Snedeker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Snedeker getting more or less common?

More common. 2,047 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,056 in 2010, up 0.4%.

The surname Snedeker

A surname, carried by 2,056 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S532

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Snedeker is more common than 91.1% of them.

Origin

Altered form of either German Schnitker, Schnittker, or Dutch Snedker.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,056 people named Snedeker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 150,168 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,047.

#14,507

rank among US surnames

2,056

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.4%

change since 2000 (was #13,604)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,505	Gendreau	2,057	150,095
#14,507	Snedeker	2,056	150,168
#14,511	Simas	2,055	150,241

Who is named Snedeker

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

95% of people named Snedeker identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

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

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Snedegar

Snedeker has the Soundex code S532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S532.

Questions

Where does the surname Snedeker come from?: Altered form of either German Schnitker, Schnittker, or Dutch Snedker.
How common is the surname Snedeker?: 2,056 people in the United States had the surname Snedeker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,168 Americans. It ranked 14,507th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Snedeker?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Snedeker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Snedeker getting more or less common?: More common. 2,047 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,056 in 2010, up 0.4%.
What are other spellings of Snedeker?: Snedegar.