Sneed

16,298 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sneed in the 2020 census, making it the 2,169th most common in the country. That is about one person in 18,300.

By the numbers

People: 16,298
Rank: 2,169th
How common: 1 in 18,300
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

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”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sneed described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 53.6%
Black, not Hispanic 36.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like Sneed

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.