is flack a jewish name?
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I always thought that flack was a -rather uncommon- jewish name and it is with great amusement that I discover on this site that it is an old english name and that there actually may have been some flacks on the Mayflower or in the Pensylvannia battalion during the Civil War!
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Zelman. Zelman, Zalman, or Zalmen is Jewish given name.
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Goetz is a variant of Getz, an acronym (a name created from the initial letters of a Hebrew phrase, and which refers to a relative, lineage or occupation) of the Hebrew 'Gabbai Tzedakah', meaning "official in charge of alms and charities".
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Holzman Name Meaning. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a woodcutter or someone who sold wood, from German Holz 'wood' + Mann 'man'.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Marek.
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Kalman (קלמן in Yiddish and Hebrew, occasionally spelled Calman in Roman letters) is a Yiddish given name that is a short form of the Greeco-Jewish name Kalonymos ( קלונימוס, meaning "beautiful name", a reference to a miracle worked in God's name). ... It was derived from the Germanic name: Koloman, Coloman or Kolman.
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Surnames derive from one of many different origins. ... This Jewish family name is based on values embedded in tradition and history. Frey/Frei means "free" in German.
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Fuchs Name Meaning. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German vuhs, German Fuchs 'fox', nickname for a sly or cunning person, or for someone with red hair. This name is widespread throughout central Europe. As a Jewish name, it is mainly an ornamental name.
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The name has many variant spellings which include NEUBERT, NEBUER, NAUBER, NIEBUHR, NIEBER, NIP and NIPPER. The name was also used by Ashkenazic Jews, apparently an adoption of the German surname (Jews were not usually agricultural workers at the time surnames were acquired).
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Wieland Name Meaning. ... This name was borne by the supernaturally skilled smith of Germanic folk legend, and for this reason it may in part have been given as a nickname to blacksmiths. Jewish (Ashkenazic): presumably an adoption of the German surname.
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German : patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Johannes (see John). This surname is also found in Denmark and Sweden. Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Hahn 'rooster', one of the many Ashkenazic surnames based on vocabulary words denoting birds or animals.
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Jewish (American): partly Americanized ornamental name, a compound meaning 'flower hill' (from Yiddish blum 'flower' or German Blume + German Berg 'mountain', 'hill'). Variant of Scandinavian Blomberg.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of Weissmann. German: from Weiss, with the addition of Middle High German man 'man'. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion, from German weiss 'white' + Mann.
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It is derived from the old German Chu(o)nrad. Conrad can be a variant of the German personal name Konrad, or, as Jewish family name, of Cohen, the Hebrew for "priest". The oldest and probably the most common Jewish family name in existence, Cohen indicates descent from the biblical priestly family, Cohanim.
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The same onomastic dictionary suggests looking at the surname Fink which says Fink is German, Slovenian, English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a lively and cheerful person, or, in the case of the Jewish name, an ornamental name, from a Germanic word meaning 'finch' (see Finch). ... 05% Jewish.
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Last name: Liebmann Recorded in several spellings including Leverman, Liberman, Liebmann, Liepmann, Lipman, Lipmann, Lippman and Lipmanovicz, this is an English, German, Polish, and sometimes Jewish surname of German origins.
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Held Name Meaning. German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Middle High German, Middle Dutch, Yiddish held 'hero'. As a Jewish name, it is often ornamental.