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The article is interesting and promote interest in genealogy. However, it is just ethimology not genealogy.
The ethimology of a word does not mean that a surname is Jewish. A good example is Mejia, my surname. It could come from Mesías that is a Jewish name, but because Spain is Catholic, we use many word from the Bible including Messiah. Do I carry Mejia because a Catholic took Mexias a surname (the kind of invented or ornamental surnames), or because I had an ancestor that was a Jew? It is the same with my first name Jose. Of course Jose is a Jewish name, but I carry it because my mother wanted to honor San Jose, not because I am Jew.
Mejia could also come from Megia an ancient word in Spanish meaning "medicine" or drug. Was the first Mejia a "pharmacist" a "boticario" as we call it? The surname could be a trade name. Or it could be a corruption of "Matías" a first name. It is interesting that the more common surname is Mejias not Mejia.
More, do I descend from a Sephardic Jew that came to the Americas with Mejia or Mexia as surname, or from an Indian who was forced to baptize and given a Spanish surname by the priest? Or maybe from a slave that also was forced to baptize and take a Spanish surname, a "Christian" name.
The same applies to many other ethimologies like Dagoberto, Alberto, Roberto, etc. all names with German ethimology. But that is not enough to say that I have a German ancestor.
My son-in-law is a white American with a German surname. He told me that really his family does not have German ancestors. They took the surname after a German family that protected Indian mixblood from deportation from Florida to Oklahoma. His ancestors were able to pass as whites under a German surname.
The litmus test of the Jewish origin of any surname should be the family tradition or the cultural practices of the family like foods or ceremonies including burial practices.
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