Goldman for example.
2006-12-01 16:51:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Maybe I should rephrase the Q--are there any non-Jewish people who have a last name that ends in "man"
2006-12-01 16:58:49 · update #1
No. Surnames that end in "man" are usually German in origin. The reason so many Jewish surnames end in "man" is because a great many Jews lived in Germany and have German surnames. Historically, Jews did not have permanent family surnames.
One reason for the frequency of German names among Jews is that in 1787, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which controlled a substantial part of Europe, required Jews to register a permanent family surname, so the overwhelming majority of Jewish surnames created for that registration were German ones.
Russian Jews have Russian surnames, Polish Jews have Polish surnames, etc. Cohen and Levy are the two most common Jewish surnames in the United States. Many German gentiles have surnames ending with "man."
2006-12-01 17:11:07 · answer #1 · answered by laceheart22 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Most last names of that sort describe what a person did (the way Johnson started as John's Son, Goldman would have started as Gold-Man, or a banker) So many jews ended up with this style last name as did germans and poles.
2006-12-01 16:59:19 · answer #2 · answered by mss_lauren 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, and there are exceptions I suppose but you will find a lot of german last name end in "man" a great many jewish last names end in "witz".
2006-12-01 20:43:27 · answer #3 · answered by Conrey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. There are lots of German last names that end with "man" and they aren't all jewish.
2006-12-01 16:58:56 · answer #4 · answered by Tish 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That and Stein, I find, are the usual Jewish last names.
2006-12-01 16:59:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ending of "-man" or "-mann" is German. At one time many Jews did indeed live in the Germanic lands, but there would be far more ethnic Germans with "-mann" names than Jews with "-man" names.
Because Jews were persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime in Germany in the 1930 and 1940s, many escaped to other parts of the world, including the USA.
2017-03-01 07:44:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Walt Whittman was not Jewish to the best of my knowledge.
2006-12-01 17:00:13 · answer #7 · answered by Kevin k 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lot of Jews try to infiltrate with the Caucasian European white race. they change their names because being the minority group from
middle East they are middle eastern.
2013-11-16 15:58:09 · answer #8 · answered by imreadyru2000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... my last name is Hoffman, and I am definitely not Jewish...
2006-12-01 16:58:26 · answer #9 · answered by Hoff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no.........i know many jews who have surnames lik frank........by the way if u check in ur library u might find a book:the diary of anne frank ,a jew.
2006-12-01 16:56:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋