Lifshits
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫɪfʃɪts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lifshits is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 1.8Kas ליפשיץ(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4Mas Lifshitz
- COColombia≈1 in 649K
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 Lifshits itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 649K (inferred from the name graph)
4,841 named ליפשיץ, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ליפשיץ in IL Israel, RO Romania, LV Latvia and 2 more and Lifshitz in US United States.
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 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lifshits 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 | #117 | 4,841as ליפשיץ | 1 in 1.8K | 4.8K | ליפשיץ | 65 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | ליפשיץ | 6 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | ליפשיץ | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | ליפשיץ | 3 |
| US United States | — | 241as Lifshitz | 1 in 1.4M | 271 | Lifshitz | 106 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | ליפשיץ | 1 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 649K | — | Lifshits | 1 |
4,841 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. 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)
- Jehoschua Mordechai Lifschitzb. 1829UAnot in their usual nameRussian linguist
- Boris Souvarineb. 1895FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician and writer (1895-1984)
- Mikhail Lifshitzb. 1905UASoviet academic (1905-1983)
- Evgeny Lifshitzb. 1915UASoviet physicist (1915-1985)
- Ilya Lifshitzb. 1916UASoviet physicist (1916–1982)
- Nehama Lifshitzb. 1927LTSoviet–Israeli singer
- Galina Markovna Artemevab. 1950RUnot in their usual nameSoviet writer
- Oded Lipschitsb. 1963ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli archaeologist
- Konstantin Lifschitzb. 1976RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Swiss pianist and university teacher
- Daniel Lifshitzb. 1988SEIsraeli former footballer (born 1988)
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 105 | #144,908 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 101 | #159,712 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Lifshits?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫɪfʃɪts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lifshits have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named ליפשיץ, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lifshits?
- In Israel, the national register counted 4,841 people named ליפשיץ in 2017, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Lifshits compared with other names?
- In Israel, Lifshits is the 117th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lifshits?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lifshitsThe 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, “Lifshits” — the 117th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.