Given name & surname · also Hebrew
Ashkenazi
Ashkenazi is a surname from Hebrew, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ashkenazi comes from Hebrew, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַזִּי ('ashk'nazí), from Biblical Hebrew אַשְׁכְּנַז (ʾaškənaz), built from English Ashkenaz + -i.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ashkenazi’s family of names
In French usage, Ashkenazi as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Aškenazy. In English usage, Ashkenazi as a surname has a related form in SCHACHTER.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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