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See also Category:Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin Pages in category "Surnames of Sephardic origin" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total.
Meir Shmuel Gabay (1933-2010), first and only Israeli to be elected to the United Nations General Assembly for any office. Yakir Gabay (1966-), Israeli-born billionaire who founded Aroundtown SA; son of Meir Shmuel Gabay. David Galula (1919-1967), French military officer and counterinsurgency theoretician.
Surnames of Sephardic origin (96 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Jewish origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,461 total.
Pardo (surname) Pardo ( Hebrew: פרדו) is a very old surname of Sephardic Jewish origin and judaite tribe [1] that derives from the Greek and Latin name Pardus which means leopard, to later change to Spanish Pardo meaning (Spa: marrón / Eng: brown-grey) and referring to the color of the feline, in Latin "Panthera pardus" ( leopard ).
See also Category:Surnames of Sephardic origin Pages in category "Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Mizrahi (or Mizrachi) is a sephardic surname, given to Jews who got to the Iberian Peninsula from the east, or Jews who lived on the eastern side of the peninsula. Notable people with the surname include: Alon Mizrahi (born 1971), Israeli association football player. Avi Mizrahi (born 1957), Israeli general. Baruch Mizrahi, (1926-1948), Muslim ...
Abulafia or Abolafia ( Arabic: أبو العافية Abū l-ʿāfiya, Abou l-Afiyya or Abu l-Afia; or Hebrew: אבולעפיה Abulafia) is a Sephardi Jewish surname whose etymological origin is in the Arabic language. The family name, like many other Hispanic-origin Sephardic Jewish surnames, originated in Spain (Hebrew Sefarad) among Spanish ...
Historically, Jews used Hebrew patronymic names. In the Jewish patronymic system the first name is followed by either ben- or bat- ("son of" and "daughter of," respectively), and then the father's name. ( Bar-, "son of" in Aramaic, is also seen.) Permanent family surnames exist today but only gained popularity among Sephardic Jews in Iberia and ...