Kaspi (surname)

Kaspi or Caspi, sometimes Casspi (Hebrew: כספי) is a Jewish surname. Literally meaning "silver", in many cases this surname was chosen as a Hebraization of West Ashkenazi ornamental surnames with the word "silver" within, e.g., Zilber, Zilberman, Silverman, etc.[1]

Notable people with the surname include:

Romanized as Caspi

Romanized as Kaspi

  • Joseph Ibn Kaspi (1279—1340), a Provençal exegete, grammarian and philosopher
  • Haya Kaspi (born 1948), Israeli operations researcher, statistician, and probability theorist
  • Omri Kaspi (born 1988), Israeli basketball player
  • Victoria Kaspi (born 1967), American-Canadian astrophysicist
  • Werner Kaspi (1917–?), Israeli footballer

See also

References

  1. ^ Martin, Gershom. "Some preliminary notes on Israeli family names". Weizmann Institute of Science. Archived from the original on 2013-05-27.