The snape Surname
snape Name Meaning and History
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places
in England and southern Scotland, for example in North Yorkshire near
Bedale, in the Lowlands near Biggar, and in Suffolk, so named with Old
English snæp ‘area of boggy land’. In Sussex the dialect
term snape is still used of boggy, uncultivable land.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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