Ashkenazi Family History
Ashkenazi Name Meaning
Jewish: nickname applied by Jews in Slavic countries for a Jew from Germany; it was also used to denote a Yiddish-speaking Jew who had settled in an area where non-Ashkenazic Jews were in the majority. Ashkenaz is a Biblical placename (Genesis 10:3 Jeremiah 5 27) etymologically related to Greek Skythia ‘Scythia’. However since the 9th century
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022