Herz is a German surname meaning heart. Notable people with the surname include:
Wilde is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Kraus is a German surname meaning "curly". Notable people with the surname include:
Glück is the surname of:
Sommer is a surname, from the German, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian languages word for the season "summer".
Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word schäfer, meaning 'shepherd', which itself descends from the Old High German scāphare. Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer", the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames.
Becker is one of the German-language surnames, along with Bäcker and Baecker, that derive from the root, which refers to baking. The surname began as a name for a baker. In northern Germany, it can also derive from the word Beck for Bach to denote origin.
Halperin is a variation of the Jewish surname Heilprin. Both forms are Southern Yiddish for Heilbrun, that is the German city Heilbronn. The name is sometimes transliterated into the Cyrillic alphabet as Galperin.
Lederer is a surname of German origin, meaning "leatherworker". Notable people with the surname include:
Salzman is a German surname meaning "salt-man". It may also appear as Salzmann or Saltzman. Notable people with this surname include:
Baumgartner is a surname of German origin, literally meaning "Tree Gardener". It may refer to:
Berg is a surname of North-European origin. In several Germanic languages, the word means "mount", "mountain", or "cliff".
Heller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The surname Marx is a Germanic surname, believed to originate with Mark the Evangelist and the Roman praenomen Marcus, the latter deriving from the god Mars. The similarly-spelled Marks may share etymology with march (territory), especially near Wales, but most British Marxes have Jewish roots, typically in the Rhineland or former Pale of Settlement. Famously, Karl Marx's father, born Herschel HaLevi Mordecai in Saarlouis, assimilated in 1817 or 1818 to Heinrich Marx because Prussia banned Jews from public service. Amateur geneologist Colin Shelley suggests that Marx' prevalence there may have arisen as a macaronic acronym for māšīaḥ rex.
Roth is an English, German, or Jewish origin surname. There are seven theories on its origin:
Kessler or Keßler is a surname of German and Jewish (Ashkenazi) origins. It is an occupational name that means coppersmith, or more precisely, a kettle maker. In alpine countries the name derived from the definition "the one living in the basin of a valley".
Faye is a typical Serer surname.
Glass or Glaß is a surname with several sources. It can be Cornish, English, German, Russian/Slavic, Irish or Scottish. Many with the last name Glass, are of eastern European descent, where Glass is a shortened version of their original last name. It is also a Jewish surname, adopted by some Eastern European Ashkenazi in the nineteenth century. After being forced by the authorities to take on a surname, Jews in this area typically chose names referring to places, animals, occupations or signifying personal traits. The name Glass referred to Glass-making, Glazing and the Glass trade.
Snyder is an Anglicized occupational surname derived from Dutch Snijder "tailor", related to modern Dutch Snijders and Sneijder. It may also be an Anglicized spelling of the German Schneider or Swiss German Schnyder, which both carry the same meaning. A less common Anglicized spelling of the Dutch Snijder is Snider.
Burger is a West Germanic surname. It is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for 'freeman' or 'citizen' and the surname is equivalent to the English surname Burgess. In Dutch and German speaking countries it may be a toponymic surname, indicating origin from any of a number of towns ending in -burg. Notable people with the surname include:
Hofmann is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: