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The SNOW surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 45,689 687 0.017 169
United States (1880 census) 13,855 420 0.028 277
Change since 1880 +31834 -267 -0.011 -108
Other Countries
Australia 1,127 1463 0.007 69
United Kingdom 4,388 1434 0.01 96
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of SNOW

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SNOW surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SNOW surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SNOW in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 681 1.49
Native American/Alaskan 653 1.43
White (Hispanic) 594 1.3
Asian/Pacific 219 0.48
White (Caucasian) 39,635 86.75
Black/African American 3,906 8.55

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SNOW surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SNOW in historical publications

SNOW. " Snow is the same name as that of an old, pel haps a mythical, king of Denmark. Some old German names are compounded with it; and perhaps Snowball may be of similar origin — bald or hall, bold." Ferguson. I am disposed, however, to refer Snowball to the same class as Peppercorn, Pluckrose, PuUrose, &c., as derived from old feudal tenures. Blount records the holding of certain lands by the jjayment of " one red rose at Chri.itmas, and one snowhall at Slidsummer,'' which in the old unluxurious days, before conservatories and ice-houses were invented, must have caused the tenant many an anxious thought as to the means of " raising his rent."

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SNOW

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SNOW.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SNOW

The following words are slight variants of SNOW that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.