Browse Submitted Surnames

This is a list of submitted surnames in which the usage is Jewish (Ashkenazi); and the number of syllables is 2.
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Cancer קנסר Norman, English (British), German (Americanized), Jewish (Ashkenazi, Americanized)
English (Middlesex, of Norman origin): variant of Cantor.... [more]
Clayman English, Jewish (Ashkenazi)
Anglicized form of Ashkenazic Jewish Kleimann or Kleiman, from German 'Klei' meaning "clay" and "mann" meaning "man".
Connick Yiddish
Variation on Koenig.
Friedgant Yiddish
Means "hand of peace" in Yiddish.
Horwitz Yiddish
Derived from the Yiddish pronunciation of the name of the town of Hořovice in Bohemia.
Karol קרול Jewish (Ashkenazi), Polish, Rusyn, Slovak
Polish, Slovak Rusyn, Slovak: from the personal name Karol 1, Polish and Slovak equivalent of Charles.... [more]
Konick Yiddish
Variation of Koenig.
Krochmal Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew
Krochmal (Yiddish: קראָכמאַל, Hebrew, קרוכמל/קרוכמאל) is a rare Ashkenazi-Jewish-Polish surname meaning "laundry starch" (a starch solution in water used to whiten and stiffen fabric)... [more]
Kunic Yiddish
Variation on Koenig.
Mirschel Yiddish
Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German variant of Herschel.
Šnajder שניידר, שנדר Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Czech, Slovak, Jewish (Ashkenazi)
Perhaps an Americanized form of Sneider , German Schneider.
Sneider שניידר, שנײַדער German (Americanized), Jewish (Ashkenazi, Americanized), Yiddish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Dutch
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schneider meaning "tailor" and of its Slavic variants, especially Czech Šneidr (also Šneider) and Šnejdr (also Šnejder), but also of Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Šnajder, Czech Šnajdr (see Snider).... [more]
Voglar פֿאָגלאַר, פֿאָגלער German, Jewish (Ashkenazi), Slovene
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Gunther, Alfons, Erwin, Frieda, Gerhard, Volker, Wilfried, Wolf.... [more]
Zeldes זעלדעס Yiddish
An eastern Ashkenazic matronymic surname derived from the Yiddish female personal name Zelde (from the Middle High German word sælde meaning either 'fortunate', 'blessed', or 'happiness'.)
Zurer צורער, צורר Yiddish
Possibly a variant of Zur or Tzur. Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer (1969-) bears this name.