The surname Snively
A German surname, carried by 1,580 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S514
Origin
German origin
Americanized form of Swiss German Schnaible or Schnewli.
One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,580 people named Snively in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 195,409 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,505.
Who is named Snively
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Snively identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as two or more races and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Snively
Snively has the Soundex code S514, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S514.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Snively come from?
- Americanized form of Swiss German Schnaible or Schnewli.
- How common is the surname Snively?
- 1,580 people in the United States had the surname Snively in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 195,409 Americans. It ranked 17,734th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Snively?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Snively identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Snively getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,505 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,580 in 2010, up 5.0%.