Tracing the Sneider Family Name

Sneider is a branch of the Snider name tree. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Tailor”. The extra “e” in Sneider is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Other spellings include Shnider and Schnider.

The 2010 census count for Sneider in the United States was 567, good for rank 38,902. It sits within the 50,000 most common last names in the country. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Sander and Snyder.

Arms linked to Snider and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Sneider report, with a museum-style coat of arms.