Does "Radev" sound like a Jewish last name?

Answer 1

Names do not always define a person's nationality, race or ethnic origin.

Also, Orthodox and Conservatives Jews define a "Jew" by their mother not their father. A person to them is a Jew if they have a Jewish mother, not necessarily a Jewish father. They state you get the nation from the mother and the tribe from the father. If a person doesn't have a Jewish father they belong to the tribe of the nearest male relative on the mother's side of the family.

So a Jewish female can marry a non Jew by the name of Smith and the children will be considered Jewish.

Answer 2

It sounds Bulgarian to me. But that's because I lived in a neighborhood in Chicago full of Bulgarian immigrants and got to know them quite well...even helped them do family trees. But whether the name is Jewish, Christian or Orthodox is dependent on the beliefs of the people who used the name. They weren't all the same. Jews picked their surnames in the same way the Christians, Orthodox and Muslims did. No one held an exclusive right to a name by virtue of religion.

Answer 3

nope it does not sound like a Jewish last name

Answer 4

Genealogy is about researching dead ancestors.

Jewish is a religion.

Research your ancestors back in time generation by generation to learn your own family history. As to whether or not your religion is Jewish only you would know.

Answer 5

Not really. I mean, there are Jews out there with all sorts of untypical names (I've known a Stewart, a Pylypyshyn, and an Azizallahoff), but "Radev" probably isn't in the top 200.

Answer 6

Yes. Very plausible. I had a friend, last name Vorob. He was Jewish.

Answer 7

It sounds like a slavic first name converted into a surname.

Answer 8

it sounds more like a russian name but russians can be jewish

Answer 9

No, sounds Eastern European or Slavic.