Find out how popular the last name Aronowitz is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Aronowitz.

Aronowitz, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Aronowitz surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Aronowitz in America

Aronowitz is the 38948th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Aronowitz surname appeared 566 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Aronowitz.

We can also compare 2010 data for Aronowitz to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Aronowitz

The surname Aronowitz is of Jewish origin, specifically Ashkenazi Jewish, and can be traced back to the 18th century in parts of Eastern Europe, particularly Poland and Russia. It is derived from the Hebrew personal name "Aharon," meaning "high mountain" or "exalted," combined with the Slavic possessive suffix "-owitz" or "-witz," indicating "son of."

The earliest recorded instances of the Aronowitz surname can be found in various Jewish community records and census documents from the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Poland and Russia. These include birth, marriage, and death records, as well as tax and military conscription lists.

One of the earliest known individuals with the Aronowitz surname was Yitzchak Aronowitz, a Jewish scholar and Rabbi who lived in the late 18th century in the town of Brody, which was then part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (now in modern-day Ukraine). He authored several works on Jewish law and theology.

Another notable figure was Chaim Aronowitz, a Jewish painter and lithographer who was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1825 and died in 1884. He was known for his religious-themed paintings and illustrations, many of which depicted scenes from Jewish life and traditions.

In the late 19th century, there was a wave of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States and other parts of the world, and the Aronowitz surname began to appear in various records and documents in these new destinations. One such individual was Abraham Aronowitz, who was born in Russia in 1870 and immigrated to the United States in the 1890s, settling in New York City.

The surname Aronowitz also has several variations in spelling, including Aronowicz, Aronowitch, and Aronovich, which can be found in historical records from various regions where Jewish communities lived.

Throughout history, the Aronowitz surname has been associated with individuals from various professions and walks of life, including rabbis, scholars, artists, businessmen, and community leaders within the Jewish diaspora.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Aronowitz

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Aronowitz.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Aronowitz was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Aronowitz has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Aronowitz was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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