Snope Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 1
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 8
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 6
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 8
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Snope Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Snope family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 7
Cotton Weaver 3
Laundress 2
Porter 1
Domestic Servant Nurse 1
Cotton Printer 1
General Servant 1
Foreman Dyer 1
Printer's Compositor 1
Waggoner Agricultural Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Snope

Name Census Frequency
William Snope 14
John Snope 10
Mary Snope 7
Elizabeth Snope 6
Richard Snope 6
Thomas Snope 6
Alice Snope 5
James Snope 4
Samuel Snope 4
Ann Snope 3
Charles Snope 3
Emily Snope 3
Jane Snope 3
Maria Snope 3
Martha Snope 3
Sarah Snope 3
Arthur Snope 2
Catherine Snope 2
Constance Snope 2
David Snope 2
Edward Snope 2
Ellen Snope 2
Emma Snope 2
George Snope 2
Henry Snope 2

Snope Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Snape 80% 18,984
2 Sneap 40% 382
3 Snipe 80% 346
4 Asnip 40% 207
5 Snap 60% 144
6 Snope 100% 143

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The surname Snope is the 6th most popular variant of Snape.

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