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Last name: SCHNEIDER

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All you have to know about the last name SCHNEIDER

Last name frequency

SCHNEIDER : This last name is indexed 2,058,444 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

SCHNEIDER : 1: German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor literally ‘cutter’ from Middle High German snīder German Schneider Yiddish shnayder. The same term was sometimes used to denote a woodcutter. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine) the Netherlands Hungary Poland and Czechia. In Czechia Slovakia Croatia and Slovenia it is also established in Slavicized forms (see 2 below). In part Schneider is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola Slovenia (see Kocevar). Compare Sneider 1 Snider 1 and Snyder 1.2: Germanized form of Czech Slovak Croatian and Slovenian Šnajdr or Šnajder and Czech Šneidr Šneider Šnejdr and Šnejder surnames of German origin (see above).

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Most indexed places

Paris (20,484)
Strasbourg (10,024)
Vienna (9,489)
Hoechst (8,521)
Mulhouse (6,642)
Wien (5,876)
Colmar (5,573)
Wienalservorstadtkrankenhaus, Vienna (5,478)
Missouri (5,372)
Amsterdam (4,554)
Niederösterreich (4,524)
Oderen (4,500)
Germany (4,485)
Marpod, Transilvania, Austro-Ungaria, Austro-Ungaria (4,336)
Fussach (3,721)
Sandhausen, Baden (3,532)
Bischwiller (3,520)
New York (3,338)
Berlin, Preußen (3,085)
Bern (3,073)
Angevillers (3,049)
Siegen, Westfalen (3,024)
Ensingen, Neckarkreis, Wuerttemberg (2,910)
Feudingen, Westfalen (2,885)
Katholisch, Iffezheim, Baden, Baden (2,784)
Bambiderstroff (2,691)
Bremen (2,662)
Pantin (2,546)
Strasbourg, 67482 (2,492)
Kaiserslautern (2,490)
Ribeauvillé (2,445)
Kilstett (2,307)
Aidlingen, Neckarkreis, Wuerttemberg (2,289)
Geispolsheim (2,269)
Morsbach,rheinland (2,246)
Sânmartin, Transilvania, România (2,224)
Gries (2,198)
Stuttgart, Württemberg (2,151)
Montbronn (2,147)
Berlin (2,142)
Wiensanktulrich, Vienna (2,118)
Montbronn, 57477 (2,091)
Baltimore (2,072)
Aidlingen, Württemberg (2,058)
Mnísek nad Hnilcom, Gelnica (2,027)
Wiensanktstephan, Vienna (2,022)
Augsburg (2,013)
Weitbruch (2,011)
Iffezheim, Baden (2,010)
Oderen, 68247 (1,987)
Stadtpfarrei Evangelisch, Darmstadt, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darm (1,982)
Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preußen (1,977)
Paris 19e (1,960)
Rotterdam (1,955)
Antwerpen (1,938)
Leutenheim (1,938)
Bartenheim (1,935)
Siegen,westfalen (1,918)
Geispolsheim, 67118 (1,913)
Obergailbach (1,906)

Most indexed countries

Germany (842,617)
France (533,082)
Austria (178,166)
United States (90,739)
Switzerland (68,594)
Hungary (52,380)
Romania (43,513)
Netherlands (27,086)
Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (13,397)
Luxembourg (11,158)
Denmark (8,318)
Belgium (7,028)
Russian Federation (6,018)
Brazil (5,087)
Latvia (4,800)
Algeria (4,408)
United Kingdom (4,385)
Canada (3,705)

Available collections for this name

Archives
(1,258,232)
Family Trees
(666,586)
Newspapers
(94,174)
Books
(18,195)
Cemeteries
(8,409)
Other
(7,951)
Obituaries
(1,972)
Magazines
(1,672)
Memorials
(1,141)
Coats of Arms
(78)
Memory of places
(34)