Show ContentsFriedenthal History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The name Friedenthal is a proud symbol of ancient Jewish culture. Before the late Middle Ages, people were known only by a single name. However, as the population increased and travelers set out on their journeys, it became necessary for people to adopt a second name to identify themselves. Jewish hereditary surnames were adopted from a variety of different sources. Numerous Jewish surnames are ornamental surnames, which are names that have an ornamental value and are not necessarily related to the localities, occupations, nicknames or given names of the first person who used the name. However, ornamental names were often derived from elements that described locations or features of geography, animals and birds, occupations or personal names. The Ashkenazic Jewish name Friedenthal is an ornamental name derived from the Yiddish word frid, which means peace.


United States Friedenthal migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Friedenthal Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Ernst Friedenthal, who landed in Colorado in 1880 1
Friedenthal Settlers in United States in the 20th Century
  • Herman Mendel Friedenthal, who arrived in Alabama in 1921 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Friedenthal (post 1700) +

  • Alan H. Friedenthal, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 2000 2
  • Markus Bär Friedenthal (1779-1859), German Jewish banker and scholar
  • Karl Rudolf Friedenthal (1827-1890), Prussian statesman


  1. 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)
  2. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 30) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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