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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a detatched piece of land or woodland, from Middle English snede, or a habitational name from a place named with this word (Old English snǣd), as for example Snead in Worcestershire or The Sneyd in Staffordshire.

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