Gershowitz Family History
Gershowitz Name Meaning
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Herschowitz a patronymic from Hersh a dialect variant of Hirsch The ending -owitz is a Germanized form of the East Slavic patronymic ending -ovich Polish -owicz. The initial g is due to Russian influence since Russian has no h and alters it to g in borrowed words and names.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022