SNIDER Origin of surname
SNIDER
Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name derives from an occupation (also connected with raw material, finished product or implements associated with that trade).
Snider is a variant of Schneider, which means "tailor" in German. As a Jewish name it is a translation of the Hebrew Hayat which first appears as the term for "tailor" in mishnaic and midrashic literature. Tailors are mentioned more frequently in the Talmud. In biblical times, the name is recorded in an Aramaic form with the 3rd century commentator and author of the Midrash, Daniel Hayyata. The Hebrew form was rendered in Latin letters as Alfayate in the 13th century and Hayete and Hayet in the 14th and 15th centuries. Khayat is documented in 1325 in Pamplona, Spain, with Jocef Bar Yom Tob Khayat. The German translation Schneider is found in the 14th century. Hayyat is recorded in the 15th century with the Spanish kabbalist Judah Ben Jacob Hayyat (circa 1450-circa 1510), Hayatizade in the 17th century with the Turkish physician Mustapha Hayatizade, and Chajjat in Burgenland, Austria, in the 18th century with Moses Ben Isak Chajjat. There are many other variants, among them the Yiddish Chaitman, and Shnaider, the Polish form Sznajder, the English Snyder and Taylor, the Russian Portnoy, Ukrainian Kravitz, Hungarian Szabo, and Romanian Croitor(u).
Distinguished bearers of the Jewish family name Snider include the 20th century American dentist, Jack Engler Snider and the 20th century Latvian-born Canadian tailor and pawn-broker, Joseph Snider.
Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name derives from an occupation (also connected with raw material, finished product or implements associated with that trade).
Snider is a variant of Schneider, which means "tailor" in German. As a Jewish name it is a translation of the Hebrew Hayat which first appears as the term for "tailor" in mishnaic and midrashic literature. Tailors are mentioned more frequently in the Talmud. In biblical times, the name is recorded in an Aramaic form with the 3rd century commentator and author of the Midrash, Daniel Hayyata. The Hebrew form was rendered in Latin letters as Alfayate in the 13th century and Hayete and Hayet in the 14th and 15th centuries. Khayat is documented in 1325 in Pamplona, Spain, with Jocef Bar Yom Tob Khayat. The German translation Schneider is found in the 14th century. Hayyat is recorded in the 15th century with the Spanish kabbalist Judah Ben Jacob Hayyat (circa 1450-circa 1510), Hayatizade in the 17th century with the Turkish physician Mustapha Hayatizade, and Chajjat in Burgenland, Austria, in the 18th century with Moses Ben Isak Chajjat. There are many other variants, among them the Yiddish Chaitman, and Shnaider, the Polish form Sznajder, the English Snyder and Taylor, the Russian Portnoy, Ukrainian Kravitz, Hungarian Szabo, and Romanian Croitor(u).
Distinguished bearers of the Jewish family name Snider include the 20th century American dentist, Jack Engler Snider and the 20th century Latvian-born Canadian tailor and pawn-broker, Joseph Snider.