Lifshitz

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew ליפשיץ, a Jewish Ashkenazi habitational surname from the Polish city of Głubczyce.

Proper noun

Lifshitz (plural Lifshitzes)

1. A surname from Hebrew.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lifshitz is the 79075^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 241 individuals. Lifshitz is most common among White (97.1%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lifshitz”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 436.