Ashkenazy
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2010
Ashkenazy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common surname.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.4M(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 22Mfew records
- ILIsrael1 in 798as אשכנזי
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ashkenazy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 197K (inferred from the name graph)
10,873 named אשכנזי, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled אשכנזי in IL Israel, AR Argentina and Ashkenazi in CY Cyprus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ashkenazy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #35 | 10,873as אשכנזי | 1 in 798 | 11K | אשכנזי | 100 |
| US United States | — | 545as Ashkenazi | 1 in 610K | 754 | Ashkenazy | 143 |
| AR Argentina | — | 111as Eskenazi | 1 in 410K | 111 | אשכנזי | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 84as Eskenazi | 1 in 2.5M | 84 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 60as Eskenazi | 1 in 834K | 60 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 34as Eskenazi | 1 in 100K | 34 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 25as Ashkenazi | 1 in 223K | 25 | — | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Ashkenazi | 4 |
10,873 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Salomone Ashkenazib. 1520ITItalian physician
- Clara Ashkenazib. 1922BGBulgarian resistance member
- Menachem Ashkenazib. 1934ILIsraeli football referee (1934-2000)
- Vladimir Ashkenazyb. 1937RUIcelandic pianist and conductor from Russia (born 1937)
- Shmuel Ashkenasib. 1941ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli musician
- Gabi Ashkenazib. 1954ILIsraeli military officer and politician
- Lior Ashkenazib. 1968ILIsraeli actor
- Dimitri Ashkenazyb. 1969USIcelandic clarinetist
- Moshe Ashkenazib. 1983ILIsraeli actor
- Yuval Ashkenazib. 1992ILIsraeli association footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 135 | #118,954 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 102 | #158,432 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ashkenazy have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named אשכנזי, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ashkenazy?
- In Israel, the national register counted 10,873 people named אשכנזי in 2017, about 1 in 798 residents.
- How common is Ashkenazy compared with other names?
- In Israel, Ashkenazy is the 35th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ashkenazy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ashkenazyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ashkenazy” — the 35th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.