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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