Bernstein is a common surname of German origin, meaning "amber". The name is used by both Germans and Jews, although it is most common among people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. The German pronunciation is, but in English, it is pronounced either as or.
Adler is a surname of German origin meaning eagle. and has a frequency in the United Kingdom of less than 0.004%, and of 0.008% in the United States. In Christian iconography, the eagle is the symbol of John the Evangelist, and as such a stylized eagle was commonly used as a house sign/totem in German speaking areas. From the tenement the term easily moved to its inhabitants, particularly to those having only one name. This phenomenon can be easily seen in German and Austrian censuses from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Schlesinger is a German surname meaning "Silesian" and may refer to:
König is the German word for "king". In German and other languages applying the umlaut, the transliterations Koenig and Kœnig, when referring to a surname, also occur. As a surname in English, the use of Koenig is usual, and sometimes also Konig. Notable people with the name include:
Salem Fields Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located at 775 Jamaica Avenue in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, within the Cemetery Belt. It was founded in 1852 by Congregation Emanu-El of New York.
Bamberger is a Bavarian and Southern German toponymic surname, and it indicates someone from Bamberg in Bavaria. Notable people with the surname include:
Friedländer is a toponymic surname derived from any of German places named Friedland.
Goldschmidt is a German surname meaning "Goldsmith". It may refer to:
Steinberg is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Variants: Shteinberg, Steinbarg. Notable people with the surname include:
Hellman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Baer or Van Baer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Behr is a given name and surname that derives from the German Bär (bear). Older forms of the name, Bela and Belo, occur in the Memorbuch. The diminutive forms Baeril(Berel) and Baerush(Berush) are used among Polish and Russian Jews.
Heller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Stern is a surname which can be of either German/Yiddish or English language origin, though the former case predominates.
Avery is an English name ultimately derived from the Old English name Ælfred, which literally translates to 'elf-counsel'
Singer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Leopold is the modern form of the Germanic name Luitbald, composed of two stems, common to Germanic names. The first part is related to Old High German liut meaning "people", the second part bald or balt is of Germanic origin and means "brave". The name is not related to the names Leon and Leonard which mean lion. The name gradually spread across Western Europe and during the 16th century it became popular in the southern Holy Roman Empire, due to the influence of the Margraves of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty.
Landau is a German and Yiddish toponymic surname derived from one of the two places named Landau. Notable people with the surname include:
Beer is an English and German surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:
Jaffe and its variant spellings Jaffé and Yaffe are Hebrew-language surnames.
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