Abramowicz

Abramowicz, Abramovich, Abramowitz, and Abramovitz are variant spellings of a name meaning "son of Abraham" among Slavic language speaking peoples; it is a common surname among Ashkenazi Jews,^[1]^[2] for whom it is commonly Hebraized to Ben-Avraham (בן-אברהם) upon immigration to Israel.

A similar surname of peoples from the former Yugoslavia is Abramović.

Some people with these names include:

Abramowicz (Polish)

Andrzej Abramowicz (died 1763) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman.
Danny Abramowicz (1945-), American football player
Halina Abramowicz, Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University and Max Planck Institute
Hirsz Abramowicz (1881–1960), prominent Yiddish historian and writer^[3]
Kazimierz Abramowicz (1889–1936), Polish mathematician
Leo Abramowicz (1889–1978), Jewish Austrian painter
Lisa Abramowicz, American television and radio host
Manuel Abramowicz (born 1967), Belgian reporter
Michel Abramowicz (1950-), French cinematographer
Michał Abramowicz (1884–1965), Russian and Soviet geologist
Sławomir Abramowicz (born 2004), Polish footballer
Tomasz Abramowicz (born 15 February 1979 in Ełk) is a Polish professional football player
Witold Abramowicz, a Polish scientist
Yehuda Meir Abramowicz, (1914–2007), Israeli rabbi and politician

Abramovich (Russian: Абрамо́вич)

Alexander Abramovich (Alexander "Sasha" Argov; 1914–95), Russian-born Israeli composer
Luis Abramovich (born 1962), Argentine footballer
Mario Abramovich (1926–2014), Argentine musician
Roman Abramovich (born 1966), Russian billionaire and former owner of Chelsea Football Club
Vsevolod Abramovich (1890–1913), Russian aviator
Yuri Abramovich (1935–2017), Soviet/Russian aircraft pilot and Hero of Russia

Abramovitch

Raphael Abramovitch (1880–1963), Russian socialist

Abramovitz

Max Abramovitz (1908–2004), American architect
Moses Abramovitz (1912–2000), American economist and professor
Orit Abramovitz, Israeli Olympic athlete
S. Y. Abramovitz aka Mendele Mocher Sforim (1836–1917), Jewish author from Belarus

Abramowitz

Chaim Zanvl Abramowitz (1902–1995), American Hasidic rebbe
Dov Ber Abramowitz (1860–1926), American Rabbi
Pinchas Abramowitz, (1909–1986), Israeli artist
Milton Abramowitz (1915–1958), American mathematician
Sid Abramowitz (1960-), American football player
Morton I. Abramowitz (born 1933), American diplomat
Yosef Abramowitz (born 1964), Israeli businessman

References

^ Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter; Guggenheimer, Eva Auguste Horowitz (1992). Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary. Hoboken, N.J: KTAV Publishing House. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-88125-297-2. OCLC 25093664.
^ A Sourcebook for Genealogical Research: Resources Alphabetically by Type and Location, McFarland, 13 May 2004
^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume 1, edited by Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum (Granite Hill Publishers, 2007), page 324

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[Guggenheimer_Guggenheimer_1992-1] Guggenheimer, Heinrich Walter; Guggenheimer, Eva Auguste Horowitz (1992). Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary. Hoboken, N.J: KTAV Publishing House. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-88125-297-2. OCLC 25093664.

[2] A Sourcebook for Genealogical Research: Resources Alphabetically by Type and Location, McFarland, 13 May 2004

[3] Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume 1, edited by Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum (Granite Hill Publishers, 2007), page 324

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