How common is the surname Sneller?

1,062 people in the United States had the surname Sneller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,721 Americans. It ranked 23,804th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sneller?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Sneller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Sneller getting more or less common?

More common. 856 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,062 in 2010, up 24%.

The surname Sneller

A surname, carried by 1,062 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S546

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sneller is more common than 85.3% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname, from the adjective snell + the suffix -er. This surname dates back to Middle English. * As a Dutch surname Snellard, from the adjective snel (“quick, courageous”) (related to the above) + hard (“hardy, strong”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Schneller.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,062 people named Sneller in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 290,721 Americans. That is up 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 856.

#23,804

rank among US surnames

1,062

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+24.1%

change since 2000 (was #26,738)

Who is named Sneller

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

93% of people named Sneller identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 2.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sneller

Sneller has the Soundex code S546, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S546.

Questions

Where does the surname Sneller come from?: * As an English surname, from the adjective snell + the suffix -er. This surname dates back to Middle English. * As a Dutch surname Snellard, from the adjective snel (“quick, courageous”) (related to the above) + hard (“hardy, strong”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Schneller.
How common is the surname Sneller?: 1,062 people in the United States had the surname Sneller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,721 Americans. It ranked 23,804th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sneller?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Sneller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sneller getting more or less common?: More common. 856 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,062 in 2010, up 24%.