Etkin
Appearance
Etkin (Hebrew: אטקין; Slavic feminine: Etkina) is an Eastern Ashkenazi Jewish matronymic surname derived from the female belittling diminutive form Etka of the given name Esther.[1] Notable people with the surname include:
- Bernard Etkin (1918–2014), Canadian engineering academic, expert in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics
- Efron Etkin (1952–2012), Israeli actor and voice actor
- Eugenia Etkina, 20th and 21st century Russian and American scholar of physics education
- Hanoch Etkin ; Russian: Хенох Эткин (1863–1937), Rabbi of Luga (1895-1924) and Leningrad (1924-1937)
- Mariano Etkin (1943–2016), Argentine composer
- Nina Etkin (1948–2009), American anthropologist and biologist
- Oran Etkin (born 1979), Israeli-born American jazz and world music musician
- Róża Etkin-Moszkowska (1908–1945), née Etkin, Polish pianist
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles containing Etkin
- All pages with titles containing Etkina
- Etkind, a surname
- Atkin; the same Hebrew rendering: אטקין