Kahneman

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Region of origin Lithuania
Meaning Kohen (Hebrew), or Kahan, Kahane (Aramaic) + Germanic suffix -man (-mann), cf. Kadishman Language(s) of origin Yiddish (Aramaic or Hebrew + Germanic) Related names Kahan, Kagan, Kahane; Kahnmann (Kahnman), Cahnmann (Cahnman), Kohnmann, Kohnman

Kahnemann, Kahneman, Kahaneman (Hebrew: כהנמן‎‎):

Avraham Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman (born 1934), an Israeli psychologist and Nobel laureate in economics

Harald Kahnemann-Oppenheimer, founder of Eulama

Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman (1886–1969), a Lithuania-born Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh yeshiva

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