| Name |
Community |
Early references |
Later attested in |
Meaning |
Notes |
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| Abbas, Abbasi |
Sephardic |
Spain (13th century) |
Turkey |
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| Abenafia |
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Spain (15th century) |
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| Abendana(n), Ibn Dana |
Sephardic |
Morocco (13th century) |
London |
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| Abenmenasse |
|
Spain (13th century) |
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| Aben Schoschan |
Sephardic |
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| Abensour, Abensur |
Sephardic |
Spain |
Morocco, Italy, Amsterdam, Hamburg |
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| Abi-Hasira |
Moroccan |
Morocco |
Syria, Israel |
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| Abitbol |
Moroccan |
Morocco |
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| Abu Zimra |
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| Aboab |
|
Spain (1263) |
Holland, Italy, Turkey, Africa and United States |
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| Abravanel (Abarbanel, Abrabanel) |
Sephardic |
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Historically associated with Davidic lineage |
| Absaban |
|
Ottoman Palestine |
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| Abudarham (Abudaram, Abudaran, Abudarhan, Abudarhen) |
|
Spain (13th century) |
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| Abulker |
Sephardic |
|
Italy, Algeria |
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| Abulafia (Abenefeia, Afia, Abolafia, Bolaffi, Bolaffey, Bolaffio) |
Sephardic |
Spain (12th century) |
Italy, Salonica |
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| Adjiman |
Sephardic |
|
Constantinople |
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| Adret |
|
Spain (13th century) |
Smyrna |
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| Aguilar |
Sephardic |
Valencia, Spain |
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| Aknin |
|
Spain (1150) |
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| Alaish |
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Barcelona, Spain (1391) |
Tunis, London |
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| Alashkr |
Sephardic |
|
Egypt |
|
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| Albalia (Abrabalia, Albala, Albalah, Albala) |
|
Córdoba, Spain |
Yugoslavia |
|
Said to descend from a noble Judean family of the time of Emperor Titus (70 CE) |
| Albelda |
|
Castille, Spain |
Turkey |
|
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| Alfakar |
Sephardic |
Spain (12th century) |
|
"Potter" |
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| Alfandari |
|
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Smyrna, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Beirut |
Derived from a Spanish locality, possibly Alfambra |
Claims descent from Bezalel of Judah |
| Algranati |
|
Granada, Spain |
|
Derived from Granada |
|
| Alkalai (Alcalay) |
Sephardic |
|
Italy, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia |
Derived from Kalai, near Madrid, Spain |
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| Almanzi |
|
Italy (1700) |
|
Supposedly derived from Almansa, Murcia |
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| Almoli (Almali, Almuli) |
|
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Arabic for "the one who raises up" |
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| Almosnino |
|
Aragon, Spain |
|
Arabic for "orator" |
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| Alnaqua (also Alnequa, Alnakar, Aluncawi, Ankoa) |
|
|
North Africa (as Ankava) |
|
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| Amarillo |
Sephardic |
|
Salonica |
|
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| Amigo |
|
Temesvar, Hungary |
|
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| Ammar |
Sephardic |
(14th century) |
North Africa |
|
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| Ardit (Arditi, Ardot, Ardut) |
|
Aragon, Spain (15th century) |
Turkey |
|
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| Arragel |
Sephardic |
Spain (15th century) |
|
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| Aroeste |
|
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Monastir |
|
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| Asherdies |
|
Toledo, Spain (1297) |
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| Atias (Athias, Athia) |
|
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Ottoman Palestine, Italy, Hamburg, Amsterdam, London |
|
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| (Ibn) Attar |
Sephardic |
(14th century) |
North Africa |
Arabic for "apotheracy", "spice dealer" |
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| Avila |
|
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Morocco, Spain (converted to Catholicism) |
|
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| Ayllon (Aelion, Aylion, Hillion) |
Sephardic |
|
Amsterdam, London, Salonica |
|
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| Azevedo |
Sephardic |
|
Amsterdam, London, Portugal |
|
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| Azulay, Azulai |
|
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Morocco, Italy, England, Palestine |
|
Descended from Spanish exiles who settled in Fez |
| Azriel |
|
Girona, Spain (1160) |
Rumelia, Frankfurt, Vilnius |
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| Behar (Bahar, Bakhar, Bekhar) |
Sephardic |
Castille, Spain (1492) |
Bulgaria |
Hebrew acronym of "Ben Kevod Rabbi" (i.e. "son of the honorable Rabbi"); originally used in the form of X Behar Y |
|
| Bejerano, Bedjarano |
Sephardic |
|
Turkey |
Derived from Bejar, Spain |
|
| Belilhos |
|
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Amsterdam, Cochin |
|
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| Belifante |
|
|
Turkey, Amsterdam |
|
Descendants of Joseph Cohen Belifante, who fled Portugal for Turkey in 1526 |
| Belisha |
|
Morocco (18th century) |
|
Derived from contraction of ben (son of) Elisha |
|
| Benveniste |
Sephardic |
Narbonne (12th century) |
Spain, Provence, Middle East, Bulgaria, Serbia, Vienna, Constantinople |
|
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| Benzamero |
|
(13th century) |
Leghorn, Italy |
|
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| Benzaqen |
|
(17th century) |
|
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| Bibago / Bibas / Bibaz |
|
(15th century) |
Morocco |
|
Associated with Abraham Bibago |
| Boton |
|
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Salonica |
|
Emigrated from Spain to Salonica in 1492 |
| Bravo |
|
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London |
|
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| Brito / de Brito |
|
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| Brudo |
Sephardic |
|
Turkey |
|
Also recorded as a marrano family |
| Bueno |
|
(16th century) |
France, Italy, Holland, England, United States |
|
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| Burla |
|
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Turkey, Ottoman Palestine |
|
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| Busal |
|
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Salonica |
|
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| Cabessa |
|
Toledo, Spain (13th century) |
Morocco, United States |
|
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| Cabret |
|
Spain (14th century) |
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| Caceras / Caceras and other variations |
|
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Mexico, Portugal, Holland, England, Suriname, West Indies, New York, Philadelphia |
Probably from Cáceres, Spain |
|
| Calahora |
|
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Krakow, Poland |
|
Lived in Krakow since the 16th century |
| Camondo |
|
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Venice, Constantinople, Paris |
|
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| Cansino |
|
Oran (13th century) |
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| Cassuto |
Sephardic |
|
Amsterdam, Hamburg |
|
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| Carmona |
|
|
Turkey |
Derived from Carmona, Spain |
|
| Caro |
Sephardic |
Spain (15th century) |
Turkey, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, United States |
|
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| Gaon |
|
Vitoria, Spain (15th century) |
|
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| Gatigno (also Gatinho, Gattegno) |
Sephardic |
Spain (14th century) |
Turkey |
Derived from Gafines, France |
|
| Gavison |
Sephardic |
|
Egypt |
|
Family fled from Seville to Granada in 1391 |
| Moreno |
|
|
Bayonne, London, Hamburg, Turkey |
|
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| Nabon / Navon |
|
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Turkey (Constantinople), Jerusalem |
|
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| Nahmias |
|
(1112) |
|
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Ancient family of Toledo, Spain |
| Najara |
|
|
Algiers, Tunis, Damascus, Gaza |
Derived from Nájera, Spain |
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| Palache (Palaggi, Falaji, Pallache) |
|
|
Morocco, Turkey |
|
First appeared in Medieval Spain as Palyaj |
| Pardo |
|
Amsterdam (16th century) |
America |
Derived from prado, Spanish for "Meadow" |
|
| Sarfati |
Sephardic |
|
|
Hebrew for "French" |
|
| Sasson |
Sephardic |
|
India, England |
|
Descended from the Toledan Ibn Shosan family (13th century); claims Davidic descent |
| Sasportas |
|
Oran, Algeria (16th century) |
|
|
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| Suarez |
|
|
Egypt |
|
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| Toledano (de Toledo) |
|
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Salonica, Jerusalem, Turkey, Africa, Holland and England. |
|
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| Torres |
|
Spain (15th century) |
France |
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