Mendelsohn History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
Israel

Etymology of Mendelsohn

What does the name Mendelsohn mean?

The surname Mendelsohn is a patronymic surname, which derives from the Hebrew given name of Menahem, which means 'comforter.' This given name was given to boys born during the week after Tisha B'Av, and it was also a name used for the messiah.

Mendelsohn Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Mendel, Mandel, Mendelson, Mendelsson, Mendelsohn, Mendelssohn, Mendelzon, Mendelovich, Mendelovitch, Mendelovic, Mendelovicz, Mendelowicz, Mendelovics, Mendelowisz, Mendelovitz, Mendelowitz, Mendelovits, Mendlovic, Mendelevitch, Mendelevitz, Mendelvitz, Mendelewicz, Mendlewicz, Mendelevsky, Mendlevich, Mendelovici, Medelovici, Mendelovits and many more.

Mendelsohn Ranking

the United States, the name Mendelsohn is the 14,543^rd most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Mendelsohn migration to the United States +

Mendelsohn Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Ernestine Mendelsohn, aged 25, who landed in New York in 1854 2
Isaac Mendelsohn, aged 2, who arrived in New York in 1854 2
Theodore Mendelsohn, who arrived in Mississippi in 1894 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Mendelsohn (post 1700) +

Jack Mendelsohn (1926-2017), American Emmy Award nominated writer-artist who worked in animation, comic strips and comic books, co-screenwriter of Yellow Submarine (1968), awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild in 2004
Robert O. Mendelsohn (b. 1952), American environmental economist
Eric Mendelsohn (b. 1964), American film director and screenwriter
Daniel Mendelsohn (b. 1960), American author and critic
Carol Mendelsohn (b. 1951), American TV writer, notable for her work on the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Nathan Saul Mendelsohn CM, FRSC (1917-2006), award-winning Canadian mathematician
Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953), German architect known for his expressionist architecture
Ben Mendelsohn (b. 1969), Australian actor

Sources +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)