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  • #828957
    nameless
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    What about uncomon names?

    Interestingly enough, I know a family named Ungarisher of Polish descent.

    And the name POLLAK happens to be common amongst Hungarians, funny isnt it?

    #828958

    I think we are all pretty wrong.. the most common two last names are: MD and ESQ….

    #828959
    Joseph
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    havesomeseichel: those are trademarks of mdlevine and cantoresq, respectively.

    #828960

    squeak,

    a bit late, but I second your nomination of jphone’s post to the hall of fame.

    #828961

    Joseph- my point exactly! If there are two who admit it, then I bet we can find people who do not use it as their sn… But really, Jews are big in the doctor/lawyer professions…..

    #828962
    squeak
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    great! I’ll do the copy/paste labor in the morgen.

    #828963
    mdlevine
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    the “md” in mdlevine has nothing to do with the medical profession

    #828964
    Curious
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    Forget abou MD or ESQ, how about SLP?

    (Isn’t that the speech therapy initals?) Also, add the special ed initials…

    #828965
    asdfghjkl
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    mdlevine: i was actually going to say that for ya, since you have not been around lately!!! good to see ya mdlevine!!!!

    #828966

    there was a joke(ok not really a joke) that i read…i 4got it but its s/t like -almost all frum last names end with either man,berg,stein,owitz,sky…..i 4got the rest but it was cute when i heard it i just messed it up along the way

    #828972
    YW Moderator-42
    Moderator

    Solomon is a fairly common last name.

    #828973
    Joseph
    Participant

    I think Moderator is a very common last name around here.

    #828974
    YW Moderator-42
    Moderator

    Is it a last name, or just the prefix of the last name?

    #828975
    Joseph
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    That is asking too much personal info.

    Against the rules, sorry.

    #828976
    YW Moderator-42
    Moderator

    Looking through my cell phone contact list I think Friedman is the most common last name. I have a lot of those in my phone book, some with the same first name so I have to add their location, age, or some other identifying thing to the name to differentiate.

    #828977
    YW Moderator-42
    Moderator

    I think the most common last name in my phone book used to be “Cell”.

    #828978
    moish01
    Member

    oh you know both dovid friedmans too? what a small world!

    😉

    #828979
    asdfghjkl
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    mod42: seriously cell????

    #828980
    YW Moderator-42
    Moderator

    Yep, and their brothers’ Moishe Friedman. (is that you?)

    #828982
    moish01
    Member

    hey how did you know??

    #828986

    syrian, hakablan isnt far from katzenelbogen… at one point they cut in to each other…trust me i kno my walk around katzenelbogen to hakablan to agasi very well!

    #828987
    Itzik_s
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    BS”D

    I hope neither of those Moishe Friedmans resides in Vienna and has the (very inappropriate) second name of Aryeh because said gentleman is in cherem!!

    We frum Yidden seem to be so apt at choosing the same first names, regardless of our particular community and the reason for those names, that all of my phone book entries are last name first as with two exceptions I have more than 2 people with each first name represented in my book (and I keep my phone book clean and small). Not all of the duplicate names are the typical ones associated with any particular community.

    #828988
    moish01
    Member

    well i don’t reside in vienna, so that’s one down

    #828989
    Nobody
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    The most common forenames I know of are Hey! and Howyadoin?

    #828990
    ronrsr
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    sung to the tune of “76 Trombones” from The Music Man by Meredith Wilson. Lyrics parodized by Allan Sherman:

    “Seventy-six Sol Cohens in the country club,

    And a hundred and ten nice men named Levine!

    And there’s more than a thousand Finks

    Who parade around the links-

    It’s a sight that really must be seen…”

    #828991
    ronrsr
    Member

    also from Allan Sherman, from the song, “Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max, My Boy,” the list of all the friends and relatives on Ocean Parkway:

    Meet..

    Merowitz, Berowitz, Handelman, Schandelman

    Sperber and Gerber and Steiner and Stone

    Boskowitz, Lubowitz, Aaronson, Baronson,

    Kleinman and Feinman and Freidman and Cohen.”

    “Smallowitz, Wallowitz, Tidelbaum, Mandelbaum

    Levin, Levinsky, Levine and Levi

    Brumburger, Schlumburger, Minkus and Pinkus

    And Stein with an “e-i” and Styne with a “y” “

    #828992
    mik5
    Participant

    Miller

    #828993
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    The most common forenames I know of are Hey! and Howyadoin?

    Well around here the most common forenames I know of is, of course, Joseph.

    #828994

    ronrsr, those are brilliant!!

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