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    Yiddish surnames

    31 surnames that come from Yiddish, ordered by how many people carry them in the United States, starting with Meyer, Shapiro, Keim.

    #SurnameUS rankPeople in the US
    1 Meyer 183 150,895
    2 Shapiro 1,469 24,335
    3 Keim 4,565 7,769
    4 Karp 6,143 5,577
    5 Finkelstein 7,258 4,591
    6 Spector 7,221 4,622
    7 Kushner 7,680 4,323
    8 Slavin 8,323 3,981
    9 Hersh 9,104 3,589
    10 Teitelbaum 11,016 2,887
    11 Greenspan 11,497 2,737
    12 Kort 17,502 1,610
    13 Rifkin 19,390 1,394
    14 Gelfand 19,234 1,410
    15 First 20,971 1,255
    16 Hyams 27,974 857
    17 Perelman 34,801 649
    18 Estrin 38,265 579
    19 Freilich 31,873 724
    20 Kil 32,396 710
    21 Bort 33,530 680
    22 Altschuler 33,645 677
    23 Temkin 36,900 605
    24 Milman 36,525 612
    25 Gewirtz 38,754 570
    26 Helfand 39,052 564
    27 Salts 40,261 544
    28 Turkel 51,066 408
    29 Gingold 47,429 447
    30 Frum 48,717 433
    31 Epshteyn 60,196 335