Schneck
Sign in to saveSchneck (German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): affectionate nickname for a slow person or for a slow or indolent worker from Middle High German snecke German Schneck(e) Yiddish shnek "snail") is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname.
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It is catalogued under topics including German-language surnames, Surnames and Surnames derived from nicknames.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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Schneck (German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): affectionate nickname for a slow person or for a slow or indolent worker from Middle High German snecke German Schneck(e) Yiddish shnek "snail") is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname.
==Geographical distribution== As of 2014, 46.8% of all known bearers of the surname Schneck were residents of Germany (frequency 1:19,938), 40.2% of the United States (1:104,468), 4.1% of Brazil (1:577,718), 3.2% of Austria (1:31,074), 1.0% of England (1:639,077) and 1.0% of France (1:811,068).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schneck” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.