Yiddish Surnames
These names are used by Yiddish-speaking Jews. See also about Jewish names.
12 surnames in our directory
Yiddish
12Chaikin is an Ashkenazi Jewish matronymic surname, a variant of Chaykin. It derives from a diminutive of the Yiddish female given name Chaya, which itself is derived from Hebrew ḥaya meaning “living” and is considered a...
Mandel is a German and Yiddish surname meaning "almond". It originates from the Middle High German and Middle Dutch word mandel, which referred to the almond nut. The name could be occupational, given to someone who grew...
Pasternack is an Americanized spelling of the surname Pasternak, which is widespread among Eastern European Jews and originated as an occupational or ornamental name. The root word means "parsnip" (Pastinaca sativa) in s...
Pasternak is a surname that derives from the Slavic word for "parsnip" (Pastinaca sativa), common in Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Hungarian, and Yiddish. The name ultimately comes from Latin pastinaca. The spe...
Pensak is a variant of the surname Penzig, which denoted a person who came from Penzig, the German name for Pieńsk, a town in southwest Poland. The root name Penzig is derived from Polish pień meaning "stump, tree trunk"...
Penzak is a variant of the Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname Penzig. The latter is a habitational name denoting a person who came from Penzig, the German name for Pieńsk, a town in present-day southwest Poland near the German...
Penzig is a locational Ashkenazic surname denoting a person from Penzig, the German name for Pieńsk, a town in present-day southwestern Poland. The toponym is derived from Polish pień, meaning "stump" or "tree trunk," re...
Penzik is a variant of the surname Penzig, a name of German origin that denotes a person who came from Penzig, the German name for Pieńsk, a town in southwest Poland. The root name Penzig is derived from Polish pień mean...
Vang is a Yiddish variant of the surname Wang, which itself derives from Russian Vengriya (Венгрия) meaning "Hungary." The name therefore served as an ethnic identifier for Jewish individuals from Hungary, following a co...
Wallach is a surname of Yiddish and German origin. It derives from the Middle High German term walch, meaning “foreigner (from a Romance country).” This term was historically applied by Germanic speakers to speakers of R...
Wang 5 is a Yiddish surname that designates a Jew from Hungary. The name is derived from the Russian Венгрия (Vengriya), meaning "Hungary". This surname reflects a common pattern in Jewish onomastics where geographic ori...
Weiss is a German and Yiddish surname derived from the Middle High German word wiz or the Yiddish word װײַס (vais), both meaning "white". This surname originated as a nickname for someone with white hair or pale skin, re...