CHURCH: Common Amish Mennonite Surnames, Somerset County, PA 

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Common Amish Surnames

Amish Family Names: primarily from the Old Order and Conservative Amish Groups and those 
descending from the early Pennsylvania Amish settlers and the Hessian-Amish. 

Beachey (Peachey) / Bender / Blauch (Blough) / Bontrager (Borntraeger) / Brenneman / 
Byler (Beiler) / Burkholder / Christner / Chupp / Coblentz / Esch (Eash) / Gingerich 
(Guengerich) / Glick / Graber / Hartzler (Hertzler) / Helmuth / Hersberger / Hooley / 
Hostetler (Hochstetler) / Kanagy (Gnaegi) / Kauffman / Keim / King / Knepp / Lambright 
/ Lantz / Lapp / Mast / Miller / Mullet / Nissley / Otto / Petershwim / Plank / Raber / 
Schrock / Shetler / Slabaugh (Schlappach) / Smucker (Schmucker) / Stoltzfus / Stutzman / 
Swartzendruber (Schwartzentruber) / Troyer / Umble / Wagler / Yoder / Zook (Zug) 

Amish Family Names: primarily of the Alsatian Group and their Descendants. 

Albrecht / Augsburger / Bachman / Bechler / Beller / Belsley / Berkey (Burki) / Camp (Kemp) / 
Conrad / Egli / Eicher / Fahrney / Flickinger / Gascho / Gerig / Gunden (Gundy) / Guth / 
Heiser / Imhoff / Jantzi / Kennel / Kinisger / Klopfenstein / Litwiller / 
Nafziger (Noffsinger) / Oesch (Esch) / Oyer (Auer) / Raber / Ramseyer / Rediger / 
Ringenberg / Ropp (Rupp) / Rocke (Roggi) / Roth / Ruvenacht / Schertz / Slagel / 
Smith / Sommer / Springer / Stahley / Strubhar / Stuckey / Studer / Sutter / 
Sweitzer / Verkler / Wagler / Wyse / Yordy / Yutzi (Jutzi) / Zehr 


Note: For more detailed information on the Amish Mennonites, please read the 
Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. I, A-C, pages 93-97, published 1956.