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).
In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:19,938) in the following states:Schneck surname distribution Baden-Württemberg (1:6,022) Bavaria (1:12,255) Rhineland-Palatinate (1:13,696)
People Attilio Schneck (born 1946), Italian politician Dave Schneck (born 1949), American baseball player Mike Schneck (born 1977), American football player Phyllis Schneck, American computer scientist Robert Damon Schneck, American writer Stephen F. Schneck (born 1953), American Catholic activist
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