Snær
surname · Latin script
Meaning: snow
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/ˈstnaiːr/(recorded in a dictionary) Icelandic · from Wiktionary
Snær is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ISIceland≈1 in 49K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden≈1 in 3.6M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 59M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Snær itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
140 named Snaer, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Snaer in US United States, DK Denmark.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)snow
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Snær counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 140as Snaer | 1 in 2.4M | 145 | Snaer | 19 |
| IS Iceland | #179 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 9 | Snær | 18 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | 17 | Snær | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 59M | — | Snær | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | — | — | — | Snaer | 6 |
140 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Thor Sigurjonssonb. 1973ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic film producer
- Aaron Snær Friðrikssonb. 1997ISIcelandic footballer
- Gabríel Gunnarssonb. 2008ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic association football player
- Grétar Snær HjartarsonISIcelandic actor
- Högni Snær HaukssonISIcelandic actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Snær mean, and where does it come from?
- snow Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Snær?
- In Icelandic /ˈstnaiːr/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Snær have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 140 people named Snaer, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Snær?
- In the United States, the national register counted 140 people named Snaer in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
- How common is Snær compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Snær is the 179th most common surname of 9,400 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sn%C3%A6rThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Snær” — the 179th most common surname in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.