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It's also called snail (chiocciola) in Italian.

In Dutch it's called a monkey's tail (apenstaartje), though nowadays most people refer to it using the English 'at'.

> Actually is snail another word from Danish that English adopted?

Likely due to common roots rather than transplant. You'll find a similar word in the other Germanic languages.

Snabel-a in Danish is correct, you'll hear it all the time when there's an email address.

Snabel-a is also very common in Sweden. It's the "correct" colloquialism here, with the exception for children and teenagers who say "bulle/kanelbulle".