A German surname, Snider comes from the Old German term ‘schneiden’ which refers to a tailor, one who cuts cloth. The spelling variations for Snider include Snyder, Schneider and Sneider. The Dutch spelling for Snider would be Sneider. In England the few major concentrations of the Snider surname are found in Essex, the city of London, Yorkshire, Devon and Sussex. In Scotland the counties of Aberdeenshire, Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire have the greater Snider populations. Within the United States the first Snider families primarily lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana. Famous: Edwin “Duke” Snider (professional baseball player), Jacob Snider (19th century inventor of the breech loading rifle ‘Snider-Enfield’), Jacob Buehler Snider (LT Governor for the state of Mississippi), Norman Snider (screenplay writer), Dee Snider (singer) and Clifton Snider (novelist and poet).