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Snowden
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Origin Of The Surname Snowden
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Meaning Of The Surname Snowden
From the Town by the Hill that Snow Settles on
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Interesting
Facts About
Snowden
Snowden unexpectedly has nothing to do with the mountain in Wales. It is actually of English origin and was used as a locational originating from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the old English ‘snaw’ which meant snow combined with ‘dun’ meaning hill, so towns with this name would have been near to a hill which snow often settles on. From this we can see where the mountain got its name. |
Snowden Statistics
Snowden is the number 1108 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 9,284 share the surname Snowden in the UK.
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