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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : topographic name from Middle High German sneite ‘boundary path in a forest’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from German Schneide ‘blade’.

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