Again suggestions are welcomed as we all try to help each other. Donations of lists you have developed are even more welcome!

Do not miss the following pages that explain how Sephardic names developed over the millenia and the meanings of some Sephardic names:

Jewish Names and genealogies by Jeffrey S. Malka
The Origins and Meanings of some Sephardic names by Jeffrey S. Malka

Here are some of the sources I will try to list. Click on the one that interests you.

	Abecassis, Jose Maria:	"Genealogia Hebraica. Portugal e Gibraltar".	Lisboa 1990
	Laredo, Abraham:	"Les Noms des Juifs du Maroc".	Institut Montano, Madrid, 1978
	Toledano, Joseph:	"La Saga des Familles. Les Juifs du Maroc et leurs noms".	Stavit, Tel Aviv, 1983
	Malka, Eli:	"Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi. Jews of the Sudan".	Syracuse University Press 1997
	Tello, Pilar Jean:	"Judios de Toledo".	Institut Arias Montano, Madrid
	Elnecave, Nissim:	"Los Hijos de Ibero-Franconia".	Ediciones La Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1981
	Attal, Robert & Avivi, Joseph:	"Registres Matrimoniaux de la Communaute Juive Portugaise de Tunis. XVIII-XIX siecles".	Oriens Judaicus, Institut Ben Zvi, Israel 1989
	Arie, Gabriel:	"Genealogie de la famille ARIE de 1766 a 1929".	Limited edition pamphlet, April 1929.
	Ujlaki, Gyorgy:	"Most common names from the Sophia (Bulgaria) Jewish cemetery".	Compiled by Ujlaki in Budapest August 30, 1997 and presented with his permission.
	Fargion, Liliana Picciotto:	"Il Libro Della Memoria Gli Ebrei Deportati Dall' Italia (1943-1945)".	List of deportees from Cos and Rhodes compiled by Victor Alkana and listed here with his permission.
	Marciano, Eliyahu:	"Une nouvelle Seville en Afrique du Nord : histoire et genealogie des juifs de Debdou (Maroc)".	Families from Debdou, Morocco.
	Other name lists: -Harry Stein (1) civil records of Amsterdam (2) Bevis Marks (3) Bethahaim Velho Cemetery (4) Jews in Venice by Cecil Roth (5) Finding Our Fathers	(6) Inquisitors and Jews in the New World (7) History of the Morranos by Cecil Roth (8) Jews in Colonial Brazil by Arnold Wiznitzer	.
	Other name lists: -M Tagger	Moskona, Isak: Family names of Bulgarian Jews.	Moissis, Asher: Les noms des Juifs de Grece

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Four volumes of carefully documented Jewish family trees from Portugal and Gibralter.

Family trees included:
-Vol I

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Extensive work on the family names of Sephardic Jews of Morocco. Careful study of names, their origins, their variants, etc. Lists occurances of the names with summary of data and documented sources making it an indispensible source for Sephardic research even if not from Morocco.

Abensur in Paris has indexed these names and you can access them at

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Malka, Eli S.:

"Jacob's Children in the land of the Mahdi. Jews of the Sudan.".

Syracuse University Press 1997

Jewish names mentioned in the text:

In addition, Appendix I contains a full listing of all Jewish marriages in the Sudan. Here is a listing of the family names in those marriages:

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Arie, Gabriel:

"Genealogie de la famille ARIE de 1766 a 1929".

Pamphlet 1929

This is the family tree of the ARIE Sephardic family from Samakov, Bulgaria.
Gabriel Arie (1863-1939), author of the pamphlet, was a well known teacher and director of Alliance Israelite Universelle schools in various countries.

The information was extracted by Dov Cohen in Israel from the limited print pamphlet (title listed above) and Dov very kindly supplied me with the Gedcom file he created, (which can be downloaded by clicking here), from which I extracted the surnames listed below.

Family surnames included:

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Sophia (Bulgaria) Jewish cemetery:

Common names

Compiled by [e-mail to] Ujlaki in Budapest August 30, 1997

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Tello, Pilar Jean: "Judios de Toledo". Institut Arias Montano, Madrid

Tello, Pilar Jean:

"Judios de Toledo"

Institut Arias Montano, Madrid

The list of names appearing in this book been prepared by Ben Nahman and can be seen at

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Elnecave, Nissim: "Los Hijos de Ibero-Franconia". Ediciones La Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1981

Elnecave, Nissim:

"Los Hijos de Ibero-Franconia"

Ediciones La Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1981

The list of names appearing in this book has been prepared by Ben Nahman and can be seen at

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Attal, Robert & Avivi, Joseph:

"Registres Matrimoniaux de la Communaute Juive Portugaise de Tunis. XVIII-XIX siecles"

Oriens Judaicus, Institut Ben Zvi, Israel 1989

Contents of 1031 Kettubot from the Sephardic Portuguese community (Grana or Leghorn Jews) of Tunis.

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Victor Alkana can be reached at valkana@ix.netcom.com

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(1) From the civil records of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(2) From the records of Bevis Marks, The Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London.
(3) From the burial register of Bethahaim Velho Cemetery. Published by the Jewish Historical Society of England.
(4) From the book History of the Jews in Venice by Cecil Roth
(5) From the book Finding Our Fathers by Rottenberg
(6) The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World by Seymour B. Liebman
(7) From the book A History of the Morranos by Cecil Roth
(8) From the book Jews in Colonial Brazil by Arnold Wiznitzer

can be searched at Harry Stein's superb listing of names

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Mathilde Tagger:

Names of Bulgarian and Greek Jews

Multiple sources

(1) Moskona, Isak: Za proizkhoda na familnite imena na belgarskite evrei (On the origin of the family names of the Bulgarian Jews). In: Annual publication of the Educational and Cutural Oraganization of the Jews of the Bulgarian People Republik, Vol.1, 1967. pp.111-137. (Cyrillic Bulgarian)
(2) Moissis, Asher: Les noms des Juifs de Grece. Gordes(France),1990. 32p.

Mathilde Tagger has graciously volonteered to look up names and information for those interested. She can be reached at tagger@actcom.co.il.

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