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Fur is a surname that is a common among some Ashkenazi Jews, originating in Russia. [1] Most of their descendants live in the United States and Argentina.
Schwartzman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Rocha is a Portuguese language surname. It literally means “rock” or “boulder” in Portuguese; for instance, “rochas sedimentares, metamórficas e magmáticas” means “sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks”. It is also a topographic surname that is found in Portugal as “da Rocha” or simply Rocha, literally, "one who is from/of the rock". It could also be a Jewish-Portuguese Sephardic surname.
Shifrin, Shiffrin and Schifrin is a matronymic Jewish surname of Yiddish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
The name Portnoy, sometimes spelled Portnoi, is a Jewish surname of Russian origin. The Russian word 'портной' translates as 'tailor'. The name may refer to:
Abramowicz, Abramovich, Abramowitz, and Abramovitz are variant spellings of a name meaning "son of Abraham" among Slavic language speaking peoples; it is a common surname amongst Ashkenazi Jews, for whom it is commonly Hebraized to Ben-Avraham (בן-אברהם) upon immigration to Israel. It was also one of the many surnames of which were historically given by the returning Crusaders to their children, in recognition of their father's visit to the Middle East.
Kushnir is a Ukrainian and Jewish surname, meaning furrier.
Abramczyk is a Slavic surname of distant Jewish origin, most predominantly coming from Poland, and nowadays met mainly among Polish Roman Catholics. It is a patronymic surname derived from a Hebrew name 'Abram' – the original name of the biblical 'Abraham'.
Sielecki is a Polish surname, also of one of the noble (szlachta) families. It is derived from the village of Sielec, of which many exist with that name in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus.
Pereyra is a surname, a variant of Pereira, and also of Perera. Notable people with the surname include:
Borges is a Portuguese and Spanish surname. Jorge Luis Borges, the most notable person with this name, notes that his family name, like Burgess in English, means "of the town", "bourgeois".
Tedesco is an Italian word for "German". Etymologically, it derives from Theodiscus, sharing the same root of German "Deutsch", it is derived from “Teutonic”. Both Tedesco and Tedeschi are common surnames among Italians, both in Italy and in the diaspora. The surname and its variants means someone from Germany. The surname is also listed as a common Jewish surname in Italy. Paul Johnson notes that the 'Natione Tedesca' described Jews of German origin, being among the three Jewish ethnic divisions resident in mid-16th-century Venice.
Ladino is a Surname of Iberian-Jewish origin. It usually Indicates someone who natively speaks Ladino or someone of Spanish-Jewish descent. Notable people with the surname include:
Gamarnik, Hamarnik, or Hamarnyk is a Jewish and Ukrainian surname that may refer to the following notable people:
Marchesini is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alperovich is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ferreiro is a surname of Galician-Portuguese origin, equivalent to English Smith. Notable people with the surname include:
Lisa is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname Eisenberg may be rendered in different ways via other languages.
Fiszman is a surname of Yiddish origin, being a variant of the surname Fischman. Notable people with the surname include:
Sacerdote is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
