List Of Jewish Surnames

Old German Pedigrees

• Ginsburg, Ginsberg, from Gnzburg
• Wertheim(er), from Wertheim
• Katzenellenbogen, from Katzenelnbogen
• Ullman, Ulmann, from Ulm
• Frankel
• Shapiro, from Speyer
• Rothschild, Schwarzschild, from house shield
• Adler
• Strauss
• Bamberg, Bamberger - from Bamberg
• Auerbach

Leopold Auer

• Klein
• Gross

From Yiddish Names

• Moscheles, Moischel, Moszkowski - from Moyshe(Moses)
• Loeb, Loew / Leib, Leibowicz, Leibowitz(Eastern yiddish) - from Loewe(lion)

New Surnames

• Birnbaum

Jeremiah Birnbaum

Nathan Birnbaum

From Eastern Europe

• Aaronovitch, Aronowitz, etc. son of Aaron. Jewish surname.

• Berg

• Boyer: when German, can be a modification of "Bauer", farmer.

Lucienne Boyer

• Balshemnik, Balshemennik, Bolshemennikov: from Baal Shem: Wizard. A Jewish surname from Belarus.

• Huber: the German name is derived from Huober, a farmer holding a fief. It has also been explained as an abbreviation of Hubert or as a derivation of Heber, the Hebrew Patriarch. It may occur in the following variations: Hiver, Hivar, Hubbar, Hupper, Huper, Hobar, Hibber, Kuber, Cooper, Kubri, Kivri, Heber, Eber, Hever, Ever.

• Katzman Abbreviation of Cohen ( high priest in Hebrew Temple on Temple Mount) and Tzadik ( teacher, scholar) Hebrew. Man was added later and has German origin. This last name is popular among Jews originated from South-East Byelorussia (town Mozyr).

• Kolikov: son of Kolek. Russian surname.

• Plotkin: from Plotki. Jewish surname from Belarus.

• Rabinowitz, Rabbinowitz, Rabinovitch, Rabinowich: Son of a rabbi. Jewish surname. (This surname has the owitz ending, meaning "son of"). Poland, Russian Empire, other Eastern European countries.

• Spector: From the Russian Spectorski, meaning inspector. Jews who registered as inspectors with the Russian or Ukraine governments received a favored status with respect to travel, although those who collected taxes were generally resented in the shtetls (Jewish ghettos).

Sephardic Names

See also Sephardic Names

• Abravanel

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