Snell

Snell is the 1,636th most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,329 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,000.

By the numbers

People: 21,329
Rank: 1,636th
How common: 1 in 14,000
Per 100,000: 7.1

Where the name comes from

English surname, from the adjective snell. See also Sneller, Snelling. Also Americanized from German Schnell and Dutch snel, of the same meaning.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.0%
Black, not Hispanic 16.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Snell

George Davis Snell (1903–1996)American geneticist
Peter Snell (1938–2019)New Zealand athlete
Belinda Snell (born 1981)Australian basketball player
Tony Snell (born 1991)American basketball player
Hannah Snell (1723–1792)British soldier
Bruno Snell (1896–1986)German classical philologist
Blake Snell (born 1992)American baseball pitcher

People named Snell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Snell

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.