The story
- Old Norse · derived fromsnarr“keen, fast”
- English todaySnarr
* As a German surname, Americanized from Schnarr. * As an English surname, nickname from a Middle English derivative of Old Norse snarr (“keen, fast”), from the noun snara (“turn, twist”) (compare snúa); or otherwise related to the noun snare.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.