Schneider Family History
Schneider Name Meaning
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. JXE, AB 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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Name Distribution of Schneider Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Schneider families
 1,330 - 2,657  444 - 1,329 |
 1 - 443  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Schneider families
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166 - 329 56 - 165 |
1 - 55 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Schneider families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Schneider Family Origin
Schneider Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Schneider
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Schneider Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Schneider census records
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Schneider Civil War Service Records
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