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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • American translated form of any of various European names meaning ‘snow’, for example Polish Sniezek, or of the Jewish ornamental name Schneemann (German spelling), Sznejman, Sznajman (Polish forms), derived from Yiddish shney ‘snow’ + man ‘man’.

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