What is a good Jewish last name that can go with Nessa? and what about Amory?

I've always thought that Rubenstein is an especially good Jewish name. Other good ones would be Lebovowitz, Eisenberg, Kirschenbaum, Goldstein, Friedel, Diamond, Yakovitch, Rosenthal, Horowitz.





Of course, I'm assuming by Jewish names you mean Ashkenazic (European Jewish). Middle Eastern Jewish names are based on Arabic and Aramaic; European Jewish names based on German or Slavic.

What is a good Jewish last name that can go with Nessa? and what about Amory?
There are very few exclusively Jewish names.


A lot of names in the U.S. are viewed as Jewish as a large portion of immigrants with certain names were Jewish while back in their country of origin the same name was used by Jews and Christians.





Also understand Jews do not agree on what a Jew is





Reform Judaism defines a Jew by the religion alone.





Orthodox and Conservative Judaism defines a Jew by the mother, not the father or necessarily the religion. An Orthodox Jew will state if a person has a Jewish mother even though they no longer consider themselves part of the Jewish faith, they are still a Jew. Whereas if they only have a Jewish father, the only way they can be Jewish is to convert to Judaism.





So a person can be named O'Brien and be Jewish. Any name can be Jewish.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_J...





Surnames were not taken in Europe until the last millinenium. They were not taken so much to identify a person as a member of a family but for taxation purposes. Too many Ralphs or Henrys


in the same town or village and they had to have a way of telling them apart. They were based on a)being the son of someone b)their occupation c)where they lived d)some characteristic about them. When they got through it wasn't impossible for legitimate sons of the same man to have a different surname and still each could have shared their surname with others unrelated.


In some cases it was a couple of more centuries before the same name was passed down to subsequent generations. Some will say we are all related if we go back far enough. However, the root person of your surname will not necessarly be the root person of someone else with your surname.





Names with "stein" "stern" "berg" "burg" "ski" "sky" "er"


are not proof that they are Jewish.

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