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schneider Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, literally ‘cutter’, from Middle High German snider, German Schneider, Yiddish shnayder. The same term was sometimes used to denote a woodcutter. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of schneider Families in the US in 1920
Number of schneider families
 1330-2657
 444-1329		 1-443
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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