Snyder Family History
Snyder Surname Meaning
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schneider ‘tailor’ and of its Slavic(ized) variants such as Slovak Slovenian and Croatian Šnajder Czech Šnajdr (see also Snider ). Dutch: variant archaic or Americanized of Snijder an occupational name for a tailor from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch sniden ‘to cut’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022