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    The surname Sneed

    An English place surname, carried by 17,804 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /sniːd/ 1 syllable Soundex S530

    Sneed: #2,027 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Sneed #2,027, 17,804 people Sneed: #2,027 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sneed #2,027, 17,804 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sneed is more common than 98.8% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    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”).

    Sneed is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 17,804 people named Sneed in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 17,341 Americans. That is up 5.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,855.

    #2,027
    rank among US surnames
    17,804
    people in 2010
    6.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.6%
    change since 2000 (was #1,963)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,018Fong17,88917,259
    #2,019McCord17,87517,272
    #2,020Akins17,86817,279
    #2,021Bergman17,84617,301
    #2,022Delong17,84417,302
    #2,023Moreland17,83217,314
    #2,024Lorenzo17,82517,321

    Who is named Sneed

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

    56% of people named Sneed identified as white (not Hispanic), 38% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 56%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 38%
    • Two or more races 2.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Sneeds

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Carly Fiorina
      American businesswoman and politician, born 1954

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Sneed

    Sneed has the Soundex code S530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S530.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sneed come from?
    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”).
    How common is the surname Sneed?
    17,804 people in the United States had the surname Sneed in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,341 Americans. It ranked 2,027th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sneed?
    In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Sneed identified as white (not Hispanic), and 38% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Sneed?
    Carly Fiorina, American businesswoman and politician.
    Where is the surname Sneed most common?
    Wikidata records people named Sneed in the United States.
    How do you pronounce Sneed?
    Sneed is /sniːd/, one syllable.
    What type of surname is Sneed?
    Sneed is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Sneed getting more or less common?
    More common. 16,855 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,804 in 2010, up 5.6%.
    What are other spellings of Sneed?
    Snead and Sneyd.