Jewish Surname Search
What’s in My Name?
Is your name Ashkenazi, Sephardi or both?
Learn the spellings for your name and discover the historic regions where your name appeared.
Learn what your name means and in which town(s) your surname was historically used (currently Kingdom of Poland only).
Thank you to Alexander Beider, world expert on Jewish onamastics and author of Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names, A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire: Revised Edition, Handbook of Ashkenazic Given Names and Their Variants, Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Italy, France and “Portuguese” Communities, Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia, A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Maghreb Region, Gibraltar, and Malta.