Possibly coming from the Norman occupational surname (meaning tailor) in France.
The first historical evidence of the surname dates to the County of Somerset, South West England in 1182.
[1][6] It is also common in other English-speaking countries (especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, where it was the tenth most frequently encountered surname in the 2000 US Census),[7] but has a low incidence in Ireland, where it is mostly concentrated in the North.
[1] It is often considered the anglicized form of the German surname Schneider.
The frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1: 407) in the following U.S. states:[9] The frequency of the surname was highest (over four times the national average) in the following U.S. counties: