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Many Persian last names consisted of three parts in order to distinguish from other families with similar last names. Some Persian Jewish families that had similar surnames to their Muslim neighbors added a second surname at the end of their last names. As an example Jafar nezhad Levian (From the race of Japhet and from the Tribe of Levite ...
Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,479 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin (7 P) ... Pages in category "Hebrew-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 241 total.
Apart from these original surnames, the surnames of Jewish people of the present have typically reflected family history and their ethnic group within the Jewish people. Sephardic communities began to take on surnames in the Middle Ages (specifically c.10th and 11th centuries), and these surnames reflect the languages spoken by the Sephardic ...
Gutmann is a German or Jewish surname, colloquially meaning "husband", "yeoman", or "working man" (as opposed to "noble" or "gentleman"). Gutmann Surname Meaning: The surname "Gutmann" is of German and Ashkenazi Jewish origin. It is composed of the German words "gut," meaning "good," and "mann," meaning "man." As such, it can be translated to ...
North African Sephardim have a blend of surnames that vary in origin. The first layer corresponds to Sephardim who after the Jewish massacre of 1391 came from northern Spain to the territory of modern Algeria. Among these families were those bearing such surnames as Astruc, Barsessat, Cohen Solal, Duran, Efrati, Gabbay, and S(a)tora.
Berry is a surname with numerous etymological origins.. Some of the first British Jewish families to emigrate to the United States had "Berry" as their surname. It comes from the Polish (eastern Ashkenazic) "Jagoda", which is Polish for "berry" (Anglicised; as a Jewish family name, it is one of the Slavic variants of the Hebrew biblical male proper name Yehuda (in English, Judah).
Pages in category "Surnames of Israeli origin" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...