JEWISH NAMES
The surnames in this nameset are almost entirely German, Slavic, and Yiddish, which is consistent with the preponderance of Jewish immigrants who came to the US from central and eastern Europe. This is, consequently, NOT an appropriate nameset for Israel. Name frequencies for both surnames and first names are entirely subjective. If somebody has statistics for name frequency, I'd be happy to hear about them.
The surnames included here are, for lack of a better term, "identifiably Jewish." "Miller," for instance, is one of the most common Jewish surnames in the US, but someone named "John Miller" could just as easily be gentile, so names like that aren't included. Names like "Epstein" and "Goldfarb," on the other hand, are far more likely to be Jewish, and so those are the kinds of names included in this nameset. There is a fair amount of overlap between this nameset and the German and Polish namesets (to be posted), but I've tried to keep that at a minimum.
Since there is no Jewish nameset in OOTP, this nameset is provisionally identified with an asterisk (*). To use these namesets, choose a nameset that you want to replace (I use 29 - sorry Azerbaijan) and run a "search and replace" operation on the file, substituting all the asterisks with the chosen nameset number. I recommend using a nameset with an identifier higher than 20. Otherwise, a "search and replace" might also replace some name frequencies.
Sources that I used include:
Some prominent Jewish-American ballplayers:
- Hank Greenberg
- Sandy Koufax
- Al Rosen
- Ken Holtzman
- Moe Berg
- Mike Epstein
Jewish first names.txt
Jewish names.txt