Frequency: (162)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: nickname for a hunter, from Middle High German snurren (of hounds) ‘to pick up the quarry's scent’ + busch ‘bush’, ‘thicket’.
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