Some societies are matriarchal in nature.
Jewish answer:
The questioner is mistaken. Jewish families take the father's surname.
There are Jews who use the surname Shepard, and there are also non-Jews who use the same surname. Most surnames used by Jews are not used only by Jews, and in that sense there are few if any truly "Jewish surnames."
There are a number of Iraqi Jewish surnames. Probably the most famous is Sassoon.
AnswerIn first-century Palestine, the people did not generally have surnames in the way we now do, although many of the Romans did. Jews were simply known as the son ('bar') of their father.
Surely he wouldn't have a maiden name, because men usually keep their surnames, and the women take that of the man or keep their own.
if you are referring to Samuel in the Bible, he didn't have a second name. Jews didn't have permanent surnames until the Middle Ages.
The surname Markus has been used by some Jewish families, but that does not mean it is exclusively a Jewish name. Most surnames used by Jews are also used by non-Jews who have no Jewish ancestry.
Not necessarily, Haase is a German name. During the period of WWII when the jews were being discriminated by Nazi's in Germany Jews started changing there name's to German Surnames, and Haase just so happen to be one of them.
The surname is Germanic, but may or may not be ethnic German, depending on the particular family being studied. Yiddish, a Germanic language used by European Jews, provided surnames to Jews throughout Eastern and Central Europe.
Surnames link us to our family.
Angels do not have surnames.
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Jewish immigrants (to the American nations) were not given any surnames, they already had them. In some parts of Europe Jews were required to use surnames beginning in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In a few places the specific names were imposed by officials, but in many places the people involved had some choice in the matter. The common languages of most Jews in central and eastern Europe were Hebrew and Yiddish. Hebrew was used for religious purposes and Yiddish for daily activities. Yiddish is a language written in Hebrew characters and derived from a form of medieval German, with vocabulary thrown in from Hebrew and the Slavic languages. So, when Yiddish-speaking Jews had a choice in the matter of their surnames, they often selected a name from their own language, Yiddish. Those who don't know their history think such Yiddish names sound German.