Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : acronymic surname from a Hebrew patronymic phrase starting with Ben Rabi ‘son of rabbi’ and ending in a compound male personal name whose parts begin with I- and Sh-, e.g. Isaac Shimon.
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