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See also Category:Surnames of Mizrahi Jewish origin Pages in category "Surnames of Sephardic origin" The following 98 pages are in this category, out of 98 total.
Mejía is a Spanish surname of Jewish origin dating back to the early 1500s. In Spain, the surname is predominantly found in Galicia and Toledo . It is also common in several Latin American countries, particularly Mexico, Honduras, and Colombia.
Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508), Portuguese-born Spanish philosopher, rabbi, economist and Orthodox Jewish theologist. José Aboulker (1920-2009), French resistance fighter and neurosurgeon. Senor Abravanel (1930-2024), Brazilian businessman, media tycoon and television host. Direct descendant of Isaac Abravanel.
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" ().
The modern Jewish Iberian population is based on post-war immigration and numbers around 14,000. The following is a list of prominent Iberian Jews arranged by country of origin: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Garza is a Galician and Basque surname and the Spanish word for the heron.Garza has also become a part of many placenames.. House of Garza. Garza was the surname of many Sephardi Jews that settled in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico and the name is still found in many people from that Mexican state.
Many Persian last names consisted of three parts in order to distinguish from other families with similar last names. Some Persian Jewish families that had similar surnames to their Muslim neighbors added a second surname at the end of their last names. As an example Jafar nezhad Levian (From the race of Japhet and from the Tribe of Levite ...
The main factor distinguishing "Spanish and Portuguese Jews" (Western Sephardim) from other "Sephardim proper" is that "Spanish and Portuguese Jews" refers specifically to those Jews who descend from persons whose history as practising members of Jewish communities with origins in the Iberian peninsula was interrupted by a period of having been ...