Recognizing Jewish Names
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 2:31 pm
While this list may never be complete, it will cover most of the
Jewish names one is likely to encounter in everyday Western life.
Unlike many Gentile names, there is such a thing as a 'Jewish name.'
Many Jewish persons can be recognized as being Jewish by their surname
[last name], although not always--some Jews are adopted, or their
forebears changed the family surname, or their surname simply does not
appear Jewish.
Here are the most common Jewish names likely to be encountered by
Caucasians:
-Names ending in "-berg" (Goldberg, Weinberg, etc.)
-Names ending in "-man" (Goldman, Lightman, etc.)
-Names ending in "-stein" (Einstein, Perlstein, etc.)
-Names that sound "precious" (Gold, Silver, Diamond, etc.)
-Names ending in "-ler" (Adler, Midler, etc.)
-Names ending in "-ner" (Asner, Lardner, etc.)
-Names ending in "-lin" (Gitlin, Sheindlin, etc.)
-Names ending in "-witz" (Horowitz, Rabinowitz, etc.) or "-
itz" (Kravitz, etc.)
-Names ending in "-baum" (Teitelbaum, Metzenbaum, etc.)
-Names ending in "-off" (Chartoff, Berkhoff, etc.)
-Names ending in "-nik" (Resnik, Mitnik, etc.)
-Names ending in "-thal" (Blumenthal, Rosenthal, etc.)
-Names ending in "-ling" (Spelling, Sperling, etc.)
-Names ending in "-sky" (Barshefsky, Linsky, etc.)
-Names ending in "-farb" (Himmelfarb, Goldfarb, etc.)
-Names ending in "-feld" (Seinfeld, Rosenfeld, etc.)
-Names ending in "-stone" (Wellstone, Firestone, etc.)
-Some, but certainly not all, names ending in "-son" (Abelson,
Josephson, etc.)
-Surnames that sound "Biblical," e.g., David, Joseph, Abram or
Abraham, Moses, Benjamin, Isaac, etc.
Some other common Jewish names:
-Berg
-Miller
-Davis
-Ross
-Lewis
-Roth
-Morris
-Davidson
-Green
-Wolf
-Newman
-Gross
-Harris
-Sherman
-Myers
-Mayer
-Jacobs
-Aaron
-Michael
-Hirsch
-Raphael
-Tobias
-Levy
-Cohen
-Kaplan
-Weiss
-Nathan
-Leo
-Levine
-Simon
-Levin
-Samuel
-Falk
-Wise
-Gottfried
-Gottlieb
-Mann
-Mathis
-May
-Mars
-Marx
-Marks
-Saul
-Gould
-Fink
-Loeb
-Loew
-Rubin
-Stern
-Shapiro
-Klein
-Cohn
-Singer
-Frank
-Schwartz
-Rich
-Kahn
-Kramer
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Jewish names one is likely to encounter in everyday Western life.
Unlike many Gentile names, there is such a thing as a 'Jewish name.'
Many Jewish persons can be recognized as being Jewish by their surname
[last name], although not always--some Jews are adopted, or their
forebears changed the family surname, or their surname simply does not
appear Jewish.
Here are the most common Jewish names likely to be encountered by
Caucasians:
-Names ending in "-berg" (Goldberg, Weinberg, etc.)
-Names ending in "-man" (Goldman, Lightman, etc.)
-Names ending in "-stein" (Einstein, Perlstein, etc.)
-Names that sound "precious" (Gold, Silver, Diamond, etc.)
-Names ending in "-ler" (Adler, Midler, etc.)
-Names ending in "-ner" (Asner, Lardner, etc.)
-Names ending in "-lin" (Gitlin, Sheindlin, etc.)
-Names ending in "-witz" (Horowitz, Rabinowitz, etc.) or "-
itz" (Kravitz, etc.)
-Names ending in "-baum" (Teitelbaum, Metzenbaum, etc.)
-Names ending in "-off" (Chartoff, Berkhoff, etc.)
-Names ending in "-nik" (Resnik, Mitnik, etc.)
-Names ending in "-thal" (Blumenthal, Rosenthal, etc.)
-Names ending in "-ling" (Spelling, Sperling, etc.)
-Names ending in "-sky" (Barshefsky, Linsky, etc.)
-Names ending in "-farb" (Himmelfarb, Goldfarb, etc.)
-Names ending in "-feld" (Seinfeld, Rosenfeld, etc.)
-Names ending in "-stone" (Wellstone, Firestone, etc.)
-Some, but certainly not all, names ending in "-son" (Abelson,
Josephson, etc.)
-Surnames that sound "Biblical," e.g., David, Joseph, Abram or
Abraham, Moses, Benjamin, Isaac, etc.
Some other common Jewish names:
-Berg
-Miller
-Davis
-Ross
-Lewis
-Roth
-Morris
-Davidson
-Green
-Wolf
-Newman
-Gross
-Harris
-Sherman
-Myers
-Mayer
-Jacobs
-Aaron
-Michael
-Hirsch
-Raphael
-Tobias
-Levy
-Cohen
-Kaplan
-Weiss
-Nathan
-Leo
-Levine
-Simon
-Levin
-Samuel
-Falk
-Wise
-Gottfried
-Gottlieb
-Mann
-Mathis
-May
-Mars
-Marx
-Marks
-Saul
-Gould
-Fink
-Loeb
-Loew
-Rubin
-Stern
-Shapiro
-Klein
-Cohn
-Singer
-Frank
-Schwartz
-Rich
-Kahn
-Kramer
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