Israeli Last Name Generator

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500 Israeli last names, each labeled with the community it is best known from: Hebrew names like Cohen and Levi, Hebraized names like Peled and Golan, and Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Yemenite, Ethiopian, Russian-Israeli, Arab-Israeli and Druze family names. The label follows the name in brackets, as in Biton (Mizrahi, North African).

About Israeli last names

Israel's surnames are a map of where its people came from. Cohen and Levi, the two most common, are old Hebrew names tied to the priests and Levites of the ancient Temple. Beside them stand Hebrew patronymics such as Ben-David and Avraham, and the Hebraized names that newcomers chose in the twentieth century in place of a European or Arabic-language surname: Peled (steel), Golan, Alon (oak), Shaked (almond), Barak (lightning).

Every name here is followed in brackets by the community it is best known from in Israel. Ashkenazi names such as Friedman, Horovitz and Katz came from central and eastern Europe. Sephardi names such as Toledano and Abulafia go back to Spain. Mizrahi names add a region where the link is well known: Biton and Ohana from North Africa, Sasson from Iraq, Shirazi from Iran. Yemenite, Ethiopian, Russian-Israeli, Bukharan and Georgian families have their own groups, and so do Arab-Israeli, Bedouin and Druze families, with names like Khoury, Jabareen and Tarif.

A label is a guide and nothing more. Many surnames cross these lines, families marry and move, and no name proves anyone's ancestry, faith or standing. If you came looking for Hebrew last names or Jewish last names in general, the Hebrew, Hebraized, Ashkenazi and Sephardi entries are the place to start.

How to choose Israeli last names

  • Drop the label when you use a name. The brackets are there to help you choose, so write Peled or Azoulay, not the whole entry.
  • Match the surname to the family's story. A character whose grandparents came from Morocco fits Ohayon or Elbaz better than Goldstein, and a family that arrived from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s fits Reznik or Gurevich.
  • A Hebraized name often sits beside an older one in the same family. A character born Goldberg might become Har-Zahav, a direct translation, while a cousin keeps the old name.
  • Spelling in Latin letters varies, because these names are written in Hebrew or Arabic first. Azoulay and Azulay are one name, and so are Horovitz and Horowitz, so pick one spelling and keep it.
  • Given names double as family names in Israel. Avraham, Yosef, David and Moshe are common surnames, so a character called by one of them as a last name is true to life.

Frequently asked questions

What are the most common last names in Israel?

Cohen is the most common surname in Israel and Levi comes second. Other names near the top include Mizrahi, Peretz, Biton, Dahan, Friedman, Malka, Azoulay and Katz. This page gives no counts, only the names.

What is a Hebraized surname?

It is a Hebrew surname that a family chose in place of an older one, mostly in the decades before and after the state was founded in 1948. Some translate the old name, as Goldberg became Har-Zahav, "gold mountain". Others are words from nature or places on the map, such as Alon (oak), Oren (pine), Dekel (palm), Tal (dew), Golan, Carmel and Tavor.

Are these Hebrew last names or Jewish last names?

Both are here. Entries marked Hebrew and Hebraized are Hebrew-language surnames, from Cohen and Ben-David to Peled and Shaked. Jewish surnames from the diaspora are marked by community: Ashkenazi names such as Goldberg and Shapira, Sephardi names such as Toledano, and Mizrahi names such as Sasson and Dahan. The list also has Arab-Israeli, Bedouin and Druze family names, because it covers the last names found in Israel today.

What do the labels in brackets mean?

Each label names the community a surname is best known from in Israel, for example Tzanani (Yemenite), Tesfaye (Ethiopian) or Rabinovich (Russian-Israeli). Mizrahi names add a region, as in Sasson (Mizrahi, Iraqi), where that link is well known. Ashkenazi (Sephardi) is no mistake, since that surname went to families who joined Sephardi communities from German lands. A label is a rough guide: many names are shared between communities, and none of them proves a person's ancestry or faith.

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All 500 Israeli last names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 67 names

  • Abadi (Mizrahi, Syrian)
  • Abarbanel (Sephardi)
  • Abergel (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Abramov (Bukharan)
  • Abramovich (Russian-Israeli)
  • Abu Ghosh (Arab-Israeli)
  • Abu Rabia (Bedouin)
  • Abu Rukun (Druze)
  • Abu Saleh (Arab-Israeli)
  • Abuhatzeira (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Abulafia (Sephardi)
  • Abutbul (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Ades (Mizrahi, Syrian)

A, continued

  • Adler (Ashkenazi)
  • Admasu (Ethiopian)
  • Aghbaria (Arab-Israeli)
  • Aharon (Hebrew)
  • Aharoni (Hebrew)
  • Aharonovitz (Ashkenazi)
  • Aklum (Ethiopian)
  • Al-Huzayel (Bedouin)
  • Alcalay (Sephardi)
  • Alemu (Ethiopian)
  • Alfandari (Sephardi)
  • Alfasi (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Algazi (Sephardi)

A, continued

  • Alhadeff (Sephardi)
  • Almog (Hebraized)
  • Almosnino (Sephardi)
  • Alon (Hebraized)
  • Altaras (Sephardi)
  • Amar (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Amedi (Mizrahi, Kurdish)
  • Aminov (Bukharan)
  • Amir (Hebraized)
  • Amit (Hebraized)
  • Amrani (Yemenite)
  • Amsalem (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Amzaleg (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Angel (Sephardi)

A, continued

  • Antebi (Mizrahi, Syrian)
  • Arad (Hebraized)
  • Arditi (Sephardi)
  • Ariel (Hebraized)
  • Arieli (Hebraized)
  • Aroyo (Sephardi)
  • Arusi (Yemenite)
  • Ashkenazi (Sephardi)
  • Asraf (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Assefa (Ethiopian)
  • Assulin (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Attias (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Auerbach (Ashkenazi)

A, continued

  • Averbukh (Russian-Israeli)
  • Aviram (Hebraized)
  • Avital (Hebraized)
  • Avitan (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Avivi (Hebraized)
  • Avni (Hebraized)
  • Avraham (Hebrew)
  • Avrahami (Hebrew)
  • Ayalew (Ethiopian)
  • Ayalon (Hebraized)
  • Aynaw (Ethiopian)
  • Azoulay (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Azran (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Azzam (Druze)

B: 54 names

  • Babayev (Bukharan)
  • Badichi (Yemenite)
  • Banai (Mizrahi, Persian)
  • Bar-El (Hebraized)
  • Bar-Ilan (Hebraized)
  • Bar-Lev (Hebraized)
  • Bar-On (Hebraized)
  • Bar-Tal (Hebraized)
  • Barak (Hebraized)
  • Barazani (Mizrahi, Kurdish)
  • Barkai (Hebraized)
  • Baruch (Hebrew)
  • Basri (Mizrahi, Iraqi)

B, continued

  • Battat (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Bavli (Mizrahi)
  • Behar (Sephardi)
  • Bejarano (Sephardi)
  • Belay (Ethiopian)
  • Belkin (Russian-Israeli)
  • Ben-Ami (Hebraized)
  • Ben-Ari (Hebraized)
  • Ben-Artzi (Hebraized)
  • Ben-Avraham (Hebrew)
  • Ben-David (Hebrew)
  • Ben-Ezra (Hebrew)
  • Ben-Haim (Hebrew)
  • Ben-Hamo (Mizrahi, North African)

B, continued

  • Ben-Lulu (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Ben-Moshe (Hebrew)
  • Ben-Shimon (Hebrew)
  • Ben-Shushan (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Ben-Simhon (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Ben-Simon (Hebrew)
  • Ben-Tzur (Hebraized)
  • Ben-Yaakov (Hebrew)
  • Ben-Yehuda (Hebraized)
  • Ben-Yosef (Hebrew)
  • Ben-Zaken (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Ben-Zvi (Hebraized)
  • Benaroya (Sephardi)

B, continued

  • Benbassat (Sephardi)
  • Benveniste (Sephardi)
  • Berhanu (Ethiopian)
  • Berkovitz (Ashkenazi)
  • Bernstein (Ashkenazi)
  • Binyamini (Hebrew)
  • Biton (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Blum (Ashkenazi)
  • Blumenfeld (Ashkenazi)
  • Bogale (Ethiopian)
  • Brenner (Ashkenazi)
  • Brodsky (Russian-Israeli)
  • Bushnak (Arab-Israeli)
  • Buzaglo (Mizrahi, North African)

C: 8 names

  • Calderon (Sephardi)
  • Carasso (Sephardi)
  • Carmel (Hebraized)
  • Carmeli (Hebraized)
  • Carmi (Hebraized)
  • Castel (Sephardi)
  • Cohen (Hebrew)
  • Covo (Sephardi)

D: 21 names

  • Dagan (Hebraized)
  • Dahan (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Dallal (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Damari (Yemenite)
  • Dangoor (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Danino (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Danon (Sephardi)
  • Dasa (Ethiopian)
  • David (Hebrew)
  • Davidov (Bukharan)

D, continued

  • Dayan (Mizrahi, Syrian)
  • Dego (Ethiopian)
  • Dekel (Hebraized)
  • Desta (Ethiopian)
  • Deutsch (Ashkenazi)
  • Doron (Hebraized)
  • Dotan (Hebraized)
  • Dror (Hebraized)
  • Dubinsky (Russian-Israeli)
  • Dvir (Hebraized)
  • Dwek (Mizrahi, Syrian)

E: 18 names

  • Edri (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Efrati (Hebrew)
  • Ehrlich (Ashkenazi)
  • Eisenberg (Ashkenazi)
  • Eitan (Hebraized)
  • Elad (Hebraized)
  • Elashvili (Georgian)
  • Elbaz (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Elharar (Mizrahi, North African)

E, continued

  • Eliachar (Sephardi)
  • Eliyahu (Hebrew)
  • Elkayam (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Epstein (Ashkenazi)
  • Erez (Hebraized)
  • Eshel (Hebraized)
  • Eshete (Ethiopian)
  • Even (Hebraized)
  • Eyal (Hebraized)

F: 11 names

  • Falah (Druze)
  • Fanta (Ethiopian)
  • Farah (Arab-Israeli)
  • Farhi (Mizrahi, Syrian)
  • Feinstein (Ashkenazi)
  • Feldman (Ashkenazi)
  • Fishman (Ashkenazi)
  • Franco (Sephardi)
  • Frenkel (Ashkenazi)
  • Fried (Ashkenazi)
  • Friedman (Ashkenazi)

G: 33 names

  • Gabai (Hebrew)
  • Gal (Hebraized)
  • Galili (Hebraized)
  • Gamliel (Yemenite)
  • Gavrieli (Hebrew)
  • Gefen (Hebraized)
  • Gelfand (Russian-Israeli)
  • Geller (Ashkenazi)
  • Gendelman (Russian-Israeli)
  • Getahun (Ethiopian)
  • Geva (Hebraized)

G, continued

  • Ghanayem (Arab-Israeli)
  • Ghanem (Arab-Israeli)
  • Giat (Yemenite)
  • Gilad (Hebraized)
  • Gilboa (Hebraized)
  • Ginzburg (Ashkenazi)
  • Glick (Ashkenazi)
  • Golan (Hebraized)
  • Goldberg (Ashkenazi)
  • Goldin (Russian-Israeli)
  • Goldman (Ashkenazi)

G, continued

  • Goldstein (Ashkenazi)
  • Gonen (Hebraized)
  • Gorelik (Russian-Israeli)
  • Goren (Hebraized)
  • Gorodetsky (Russian-Israeli)
  • Gottlieb (Ashkenazi)
  • Greenberg (Ashkenazi)
  • Grossman (Ashkenazi)
  • Gur (Hebraized)
  • Gurevich (Russian-Israeli)
  • Gutman (Ashkenazi)

H: 25 names

  • Habibi (Arab-Israeli)
  • Hacohen (Hebrew)
  • Hadad (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Hadar (Hebraized)
  • Haddad (Arab-Israeli)
  • Haim (Hebrew)
  • Haimovitz (Ashkenazi)
  • Hakimi (Mizrahi, Persian)
  • Halabi (Druze)
  • Halevi (Hebrew)
  • Halperin (Ashkenazi)
  • Hamadani (Mizrahi, Persian)

H, continued

  • Har-Zahav (Hebraized)
  • Har-Zion (Hebraized)
  • Harari (Mizrahi, Syrian)
  • Harel (Hebraized)
  • Harush (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Hazan (Hebrew)
  • Heib (Bedouin)
  • Heller (Ashkenazi)
  • Hermon (Hebraized)
  • Hershkovitz (Ashkenazi)
  • Hibshush (Yemenite)
  • Holtzman (Ashkenazi)
  • Horovitz (Ashkenazi)

I: 6 names

  • Ifergan (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Ilan (Hebraized)
  • Iluz (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Inbar (Hebraized)
  • Isfahani (Mizrahi, Persian)
  • Itzkovitz (Ashkenazi)

J: 4 names

  • Jabareen (Arab-Israeli)
  • Janashvili (Georgian)
  • Jarafi (Yemenite)
  • Jubran (Arab-Israeli)

K: 34 names

  • Ka'abiya (Bedouin)
  • Kabalan (Druze)
  • Kadoorie (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Kadosh (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Kahana (Hebrew)
  • Kalontarov (Bukharan)
  • Kamhi (Sephardi)
  • Kaminsky (Ashkenazi)
  • Kantor (Ashkenazi)
  • Kapach (Yemenite)
  • Kaplan (Ashkenazi)

K, continued

  • Kashani (Mizrahi, Persian)
  • Kattan (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Katz (Ashkenazi)
  • Kedar (Hebraized)
  • Keren (Hebraized)
  • Keshet (Hebraized)
  • Kessler (Ashkenazi)
  • Kfir (Hebraized)
  • Khalaila (Arab-Israeli)
  • Khananashvili (Georgian)
  • Khatib (Arab-Israeli)

K, continued

  • Khazanov (Russian-Israeli)
  • Kheir (Druze)
  • Khoury (Arab-Israeli)
  • Kirschenbaum (Ashkenazi)
  • Klein (Ashkenazi)
  • Kleinman (Ashkenazi)
  • Knafo (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Kochavi (Hebraized)
  • Kogan (Russian-Israeli)
  • Koren (Hebraized)
  • Krikheli (Georgian)
  • Kushnir (Russian-Israeli)

L: 18 names

  • Lahav (Hebraized)
  • Landau (Ashkenazi)
  • Langer (Ashkenazi)
  • Laniado (Mizrahi, Syrian)
  • Lankri (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Lavi (Hebraized)
  • Lefkovitz (Ashkenazi)
  • Leibovitz (Ashkenazi)
  • Lerner (Russian-Israeli)

L, continued

  • Lev (Hebraized)
  • Lev-Ari (Hebraized)
  • Levi (Hebrew)
  • Levin (Ashkenazi)
  • Levitan (Russian-Israeli)
  • Lifshitz (Ashkenazi)
  • Livne (Hebraized)
  • Lugasi (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Luria (Ashkenazi)

M: 40 names

  • Maatuf (Yemenite)
  • Madmoni (Yemenite)
  • Magen (Hebraized)
  • Mahajna (Arab-Israeli)
  • Mahamid (Arab-Israeli)
  • Malka (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Maman (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Manor (Hebraized)
  • Mansour (Arab-Israeli)
  • Mansura (Yemenite)
  • Maor (Hebraized)
  • Marciano (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Margolis (Ashkenazi)

M, continued

  • Markovitz (Ashkenazi)
  • Marom (Hebraized)
  • Masarwa (Arab-Israeli)
  • Mashhadi (Mizrahi, Persian)
  • Mashiah (Mizrahi)
  • Mavashev (Bukharan)
  • Mazarib (Bedouin)
  • Meir (Hebrew)
  • Meiri (Hebraized)
  • Mekonen (Ethiopian)
  • Melaku (Ethiopian)
  • Melamed (Hebrew)
  • Menashe (Hebrew)

M, continued

  • Meyuhas (Sephardi)
  • Mirilashvili (Georgian)
  • Mizrahi (Mizrahi)
  • Moadi (Druze)
  • Molcho (Sephardi)
  • Molla (Ethiopian)
  • Mor (Hebraized)
  • Moradi (Mizrahi, Persian)
  • Mordechai (Hebrew)
  • Moshe (Hebrew)
  • Moskovitz (Ashkenazi)
  • Moyal (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Mualem (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Mullokandov (Bukharan)

N: 19 names

  • Nagar (Yemenite)
  • Nahari (Yemenite)
  • Nahmias (Sephardi)
  • Nahum (Hebrew)
  • Naor (Hebraized)
  • Nassar (Arab-Israeli)
  • Natour (Arab-Israeli)
  • Naveh (Hebraized)
  • Navon (Sephardi)

N, continued

  • Neeman (Hebraized)
  • Neguise (Ethiopian)
  • Nesher (Hebraized)
  • Nevo (Hebraized)
  • Nini (Yemenite)
  • Nir (Hebraized)
  • Nissim (Hebrew)
  • Nitzan (Hebraized)
  • Noy (Hebraized)
  • Nudelman (Russian-Israeli)

O: 10 names

  • Ofek (Hebraized)
  • Ofer (Hebraized)
  • Ofir (Hebraized)
  • Ohana (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Ohayon (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Oknin (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Oren (Hebraized)
  • Ovadia (Mizrahi)
  • Oz (Hebraized)
  • Ozeri (Yemenite)

P: 11 names

  • Pardo (Sephardi)
  • Paz (Hebraized)
  • Peled (Hebraized)
  • Peleg (Hebraized)
  • Peretz (Hebrew)
  • Pevzner (Russian-Israeli)
  • Pinhasov (Bukharan)
  • Pinto (Sephardi)
  • Polonsky (Russian-Israeli)
  • Porat (Hebraized)
  • Portnoy (Russian-Israeli)

R: 23 names

  • Rabinovich (Russian-Israeli)
  • Rada (Ethiopian)
  • Ram (Hebraized)
  • Ramon (Hebraized)
  • Rapaport (Ashkenazi)
  • Ratzabi (Yemenite)
  • Ravid (Hebraized)
  • Raz (Hebraized)
  • Regev (Hebraized)
  • Reshef (Hebraized)
  • Reuveni (Hebrew)

R, continued

  • Revivo (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Reznik (Russian-Israeli)
  • Rimon (Hebraized)
  • Ron (Hebraized)
  • Ronen (Hebraized)
  • Rosen (Ashkenazi)
  • Rosenberg (Ashkenazi)
  • Rosenblum (Ashkenazi)
  • Rosenfeld (Ashkenazi)
  • Rosenthal (Ashkenazi)
  • Rotem (Hebraized)
  • Rubinov (Bukharan)

S: 45 names

  • Sabag (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Sabbagh (Arab-Israeli)
  • Sadeh (Hebraized)
  • Safdie (Mizrahi, Syrian)
  • Sagi (Hebraized)
  • Sapir (Hebraized)
  • Saporta (Sephardi)
  • Sasson (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Sawaed (Bedouin)
  • Schwartz (Ashkenazi)
  • Segal (Ashkenazi)
  • Segev (Hebraized)
  • Sehayek (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Sela (Hebraized)
  • Sepiashvili (Georgian)

S, continued

  • Shabazi (Yemenite)
  • Shabtai (Hebrew)
  • Shachar (Hebraized)
  • Shaked (Hebraized)
  • Shalev (Hebraized)
  • Shalom (Hebrew)
  • Shamash (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Shamir (Hebraized)
  • Shanan (Druze)
  • Shani (Hebraized)
  • Shapira (Ashkenazi)
  • Sharabi (Yemenite)
  • Sharon (Hebraized)
  • Shavit (Hebraized)
  • Shehadeh (Arab-Israeli)

S, continued

  • Shimoni (Hebrew)
  • Shina (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Shirazi (Mizrahi, Persian)
  • Shitrit (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Shlomo (Hebrew)
  • Shmueli (Hebrew)
  • Shoham (Hebraized)
  • Shohet (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Shrem (Mizrahi, Syrian)
  • Slutsky (Russian-Israeli)
  • Sofer (Hebrew)
  • Somekh (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Srouji (Arab-Israeli)
  • Suissa (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Sutton (Mizrahi, Syrian)

T: 19 names

  • Tabib (Yemenite)
  • Tairi (Yemenite)
  • Tal (Hebraized)
  • Tamano (Ethiopian)
  • Tamir (Hebraized)
  • Tanami (Yemenite)
  • Tapiero (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Tarif (Druze)
  • Tavor (Hebraized)

T, continued

  • Tawil (Mizrahi, Syrian)
  • Tehrani (Mizrahi, Persian)
  • Tesfaye (Ethiopian)
  • Toledano (Sephardi)
  • Turgeman (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Tzabari (Yemenite)
  • Tzadok (Yemenite)
  • Tzanani (Yemenite)
  • Tzion (Mizrahi)
  • Tzur (Hebraized)

V: 5 names

  • Vaisman (Russian-Israeli)
  • Vaknin (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Valero (Sephardi)
  • Vardi (Hebraized)
  • Vered (Hebraized)

W: 2 names

  • Weiss (Ashkenazi)
  • Worku (Ethiopian)

Y: 16 names

  • Yaakov (Hebrew)
  • Yaari (Hebraized)
  • Yadin (Hebraized)
  • Yahalom (Hebraized)
  • Yakobovitz (Ashkenazi)
  • Yakubov (Bukharan)
  • Yarden (Hebraized)
  • Yaron (Hebraized)

Y, continued

  • Yazdi (Mizrahi, Persian)
  • Yehuda (Hebrew)
  • Yemini (Yemenite)
  • Yisraeli (Hebrew)
  • Yitzhak (Hebrew)
  • Yitzhaki (Hebrew)
  • Yogev (Hebraized)
  • Yosef (Hebrew)

Z: 11 names

  • Zafrani (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Zaguri (Mizrahi, North African)
  • Zahavi (Hebraized)
  • Zakai (Mizrahi)
  • Zaken (Mizrahi, Kurdish)
  • Zamir (Hebraized)
  • Zeleke (Ethiopian)
  • Zilkha (Mizrahi, Iraqi)
  • Ziv (Hebraized)
  • Zohar (Hebraized)
  • Zureik (Arab-Israeli)