The JEWISH people whith family name KAPLAN , in America and Europe, are they originally TURKISH ? Yes or no ?

I met a Turk whose name is Kaplan too, but he says he's not Jewish, and I also met American Jews whose name is Kaplan (and they say they are not Turks).


So I don't understand...Either one or the other is lying?

The JEWISH people whith family name KAPLAN , in America and Europe, are they originally TURKISH ? Yes or no ?
I am neither Turk nor Jew, but maybe:


The guy has ancestors of the Turkish-Jewish, I mean the Jewish community that lived in Turkey and Anatolia from centuries ago.


Sometimes the language of country influences also name / surname of other people there.


For example Russian-Jewish have names with Russian endings.
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Reply:KAPLAN means TIGER in Turkish


this is a surname used by some Turkish peasants





those Jewishh people with the surname KAPLAN are NOT of Turkish origin. that's for sure





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Reply:I suppose that's just a coincidence...There may be a lot of similar cases in every country, with names which look alike...





The name UZAN also exists in Jewish communities and in muslim Turkish communities. And there are also many other examples, but I don't remember exactly which ones..
Reply:Kaplan as a surname is very common but it is just a coincidence, it's true that kaplan is a Turkish word, but just the letters are similar with that surname.





As "bok" means "sh.t" in Turkish, but it means "book" in Swedish.
Reply:Nobody is lying, they are both telling the truth.


As you know, KAPLAN is Tiger in Turkish and is a Surname; But KAPLAN comes from Chaplain in German and is connected to the name COHEN Or KOHAN or other variations on the spelling, which in Hebrew which means priest. The Cohen name is the last name of the descendants of Aaron and were the first religious leaders in the Jewish faith.
Reply:both of them could be correct...
Reply:Kaplan is not a Turkish name
Reply:Kaplan is a German variation of Cohen. If the Turks are not Jewish, someone way back was. Almost certainly.





The other folks are probably of German or Germanic background.