# Sneed (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sneed/  
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 English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 17,804 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,027 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 17,341 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.6% (16,855 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /sniːd/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | Snead, Sneyd |

## Etymology

A habitational name derived from any of various places in England named Sneyd or Snead, from Old English snǣd (“something cut off, a fragment, a detached piece of ground”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sneed 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) | 56% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 38% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sneed in the United States.

## People named Sneed

- Carly Fiorina, American businesswoman and politician

## Similar surnames

Snead, Santee, Smith, Schmidt, Schmitt, Schmid, Smyth, Smoot, Santoyo, Shumate, Sandhu, Sandy.

## 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.