wich surnames are considered jews in your country?:0

[Dani Cutie]

Toponímics,works,objects ...

[Pennywise]

evliyazade, saat, tevet, beren.

[alfieb]

Where I live, any German-sounding name is automatically assumed to be Jewish.

[Instinct]

Kohen, Levi and I know other surnames of my jewish friends, I can't tell here.

[Dani Cutie]

Where I live, any German-sounding name is automatically assumed to be Jewish.

Too normal XD

[Queen B]

Mano(s)
Matsas
Mizrahis
Benroubis
Eskenazi
Venizelos
Evert
And generaly many jewish looking surnames (cohen, mordochai,etc)

[Smaug]

Goldberg, Goldstein, Weinstein, Grossman...

[harmonique]

Alaton, Hakko, Pinto, Kohen, Levi, Eşkinazi, Bonomo...

[Linebacker]

I don't know.We barely have any here.

[Oneeye]

Names that end in "Ski", names that have (some precious metal or jewel) + (man or berg), etc.

[Hithaeglir]

Mizrahi and Cohen are the most common jewish surnames in my town.

[Oneeye]

Where I live, any German-sounding name is automatically assumed to be Jewish.

LOL@NEW YORK CITY.


Here in the west, German surnames dominate along with the Anglo.

[Also]

Russian surnames and names that starts with "Lev" or "Lew".

[Empecinado]

Salom, Cansino, Bassat, Barjuan, Benarroch, Maimó...these are Jewish surnames.

[Armand_Duval]

Cohen, Levy, Askenazi, Elia.

[Zezak]

every surname who ends with ''vic'' or ''ic''

[Gaston]

Here, it is mostly arabic-, berber- and spanish-derived besides the usual hebrew ones. There are also the usual german names.

French surnames are rare and are often restricted to names of cities (from southern France) with old and major jewish communities like Narbonne, Avignon...

[Damião de Góis]

We don't have any jewish surnames here.

[Yuffayur]

Well to start some info about our local jews lol, there's some 10-15K jews in Morocco and more than 1.5M outside Morocco, mostly in Israel, the US, UK, Canada and France.
they share almost the same surnames with Moroccans (Non-Jews) here some surnames:

Levy, Cohen, Sepharty, Fassy"from Fez", Castillio "from Castillia", Azulay"Blue eyed", Toledano, Tlemceny, Tounsy, Azuelo, Ankri, Benon, Skaly"Sicilian", Ezerzer, Himi, Haco, Wizgan, Zafrany and name starting by Ben like Ben Aim, Ben Aksas, Ben Davis ...

[Gustave H]

Many Jews in my area have changed their surnames.

[Merida]

Goldberg, Goldstein, Weinstein, Grossman...

Here as well. Those ending in -man, -stein, -berg.
Those are very identifiable, because they usually have 'great meanings'
Such as:
Goldberg = Mountain of gold.
Goldstein = Stone of gold.
Weinstein = Stone of wine.
Grossman = Big/Great man

Another good example is Zuckerberg = Sugar mountain.


Then wer also have some Polish ones ending in -ski.

[Kagawa]

Well to start some info about our local jews lol, there's some 10-15K jews in Morocco and more than 1.5M outside Morocco, mostly in Israel, the US, UK, Canada and France.
they share almost the same surnames with Moroccans (Non-Jews) here some surnames:

Levy, Cohen, Sepharty, Fassy"from Fez", Castillio "from Castillia", Azulay"Blue eyed", Toledano, Tlemceny, Tounsy, Azuelo, Ankri, Benon, Skaly"Sicilian", Ezerzer, Himi, Haco, Wizgan, Zafrany and name starting by Ben like Ben Aim, Ben Aksas, Ben Davis ...

Yes, Benjelloun and Benchekroun for example.

[alfieb]

LOL@NEW YORK CITY.


Here in the west, German surnames dominate along with the Anglo.

Well, yeah. Germans are the #1 ethnicity in America.

But not here.

If your name ends in "-stein", "-man" or "-mann", it may as well be Rabinowitz in New York.

[Smaug]

Here as well. Those ending in -man, -stein, -berg.
Those are very identifiable, because they usually have 'great meanings'
Such as:
Goldberg = Mountain of gold.
Goldstein = Stone of gold.
Weinstein = Stone of wine.
Grossman = Big/Great man

Another good example is Zuckerberg = Sugar mountain.


Then wer also have some Polish ones ending in -ski.

I have a Borowski ancestor but she was not Jewish. Here usually surnames which end in "sky" rather than "ski" are Jewish, the latter being just Polish.

[Dani Cutie]

And surnames related with works are not common in jews ?

[Dani Cutie]

Well to start some info about our local jews lol, there's some 10-15K jews in Morocco and more than 1.5M outside Morocco, mostly in Israel, the US, UK, Canada and France.
they share almost the same surnames with Moroccans (Non-Jews) here some surnames:
Thank you, great info :)
Levy, Cohen, Sepharty, Fassy"from Fez", Castillio "from Castillia", Azulay"Blue eyed", Toledano, Tlemceny, Tounsy, Azuelo, Ankri, Benon, Skaly"Sicilian", Ezerzer, Himi, Haco, Wizgan, Zafrany and name starting by Ben like Ben Aim, Ben Aksas, Ben Davis ...

[Graham]

Don't have much of a clue as most live down in London, where the money is. My only view is that of tele. So Cohen, ending in berg or stein, but that could be from America.

Edit: Shouldn't be n the genetics section.

[Gaston]

And surnames related with works are not common in jews ?

Silverman (Silberman) and the equivalent in arabic: Haddad.

So yes, they are common among jews.

[Merida]

I have a Borowski ancestor but she was not Jewish. Here usually surnames which end in "sky" rather than "ski" are Jewish, the latter being just Polish.

As far as I know, -sky is Russian and -ski is Polish. However, it's like you've said; not all surnames ending in those suffixes are Jewish in origin.

[Merida]

Don't have much of a clue as most live down in London, where the money is. My only view is that of tele. So Cohen, ending in berg or stein, but that could be from America.

Edit: Shouldn't be n the genetics section.


You're right. I've moved it to the Linguistics section :).

[Ulla]

http://www.retaggio.it/onomastica/ebrei/

Not a good list. There are listed many surnames that aren't Jewish but common Italian surnames.

[Dani Cutie]

Many Jews in my area have changed their surnames.

Yes, here also.

[Borna]

Those like Goldstein, Aschner, Frank, Schwarz and similar.
Croatian Germans always had very old Germanic surnames, like mine.

[Smaug]

As far as I know, -sky is Russian and -ski is Polish. However, it's like you've said; not all surnames ending in those suffixes are Jewish in origin.

Brazil didn't received a huge Russian immigration, so most of our "skys" are Jewish.

[Borna]

Jews are little rats they are, have been taking European surnames in order to fit in the communities they have been.
Therefore you can see a person of pure Jewish origin having same surname as person of lets say, pure Hungarian or Slovak origin.

[Merida]

Brazil didn't received a huge Russian immigration, so most of our "skys" are Jewish.

That's really interesting! :)

[Furnace]

Brazil didn't received a huge Russian immigration, so most of our "skys" are Jewish.

Skyburn..

[Veneda]

As far as I know, -sky is Russian and -ski is Polish. However, it's like you've said; not all surnames ending in those suffixes are Jewish in origin.

As far as I know -ski, -ska is Polish and -ov, -ova is Russian (also -icz, -ич, -ić is interslavic), but we use them interchangeably due to we are all Slavs :)

[Merida]

As far as I know -ski, -ska is Polish and -ov, -ova is Russian (also -icz, -ич, -ić is interslavic), but we use them interchangeably due to we are all Slavs :)

We don't have -ov, -ova here, but we do have some -icz, now that you mention it! :D

It's funny because here even girls carry the suffix -ski. There's no female/male distinction.

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

German and polish surnames.

[Veneda]

We don't have -ov, -ova here, but we do have some -icz, now that you mention it! :D

It's funny because here even girls carry the suffix -ski. There's no female/male distinction.

The suffix -ski means you are a male. It happens only in both Americas or in Western Europe, not in Slavic lands. All females here bear -ska ending :)

[Smaug]

Skyburn..

Indeed, and he is Aussie, almost Brazilian. Southernly enough.

[Smaug]

The suffix -ski means you are a male. It happens only in both Americas or in Western Europe, not in Slavic lands. All females here bear -ska ending :)

Yes, my ancestor was Borowska, but I know her father would obviously be a Borowski, and as a male I refer to it as such.

[Hungarian_master]

Germanic names (Grünn ect.), Erdős, Kardos.

[Bogdan]

People assume many Polish and German surnames are Jewish. Sometimes they are, but not always.

[Bogdan]

The suffix -ski means you are a male. It happens only in both Americas or in Western Europe, not in Slavic lands. All females here bear -ska ending :)

I find it humorous how some Americans consider the -ski suffixes to sound Jewish. Must be because of Polish Jews migrating here.