The surname Snelson
A surname, carried by 2,315 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S542
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,315 people named Snelson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 133,367 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,330.
#13,203
rank among US surnames
2,315
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
-0.6%
change since 2000 (was #12,252)
Who is named Snelson
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Snelson identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 6.3%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Snelson has the Soundex code S542, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S542.
Questions
- How common is the surname Snelson?
- 2,315 people in the United States had the surname Snelson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 133,367 Americans. It ranked 13,203rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Snelson?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Snelson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Snelson getting more or less common?
- Less common. 2,330 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,315 in 2010, down 0.6%.