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Profiles

  • Daniel Zwerdling
    Daniel Zwerdling is a correspondent in NPR's Investigations Unit whose acclaimed investigative and documentary reports appear on all of NPR's major news shows. Zwerdling's stories have repeatedly attra...
  • Osias Zwerdling (1878 - 1977)
    Ann Arbor Honors Its Leader Osias Zwerdling Acclaimed by Community on 70th Birthday Ann Arbor citizens, University of Michigan faculty members and students joined with members of his family to pay ho...
  • Aaron Zwerdling (deceased)
  • Aaron Edward Zwerdling (1920 - 2005)
  • Abraham 'Alf' Swerling (1899 - 1977)
    Y-DNA Haplogroup E-PF6747, downstream from E-M34/E1b1b1c1*.

About the Zwerdling surname

Zwerdling (Przemyśl, Kamionka, Lwów, Stryj, Dolina, Borszczów, Czortków, Rohatyn, Brzeżany, Trembowla, Skałat, common in Tarnopol; Zbaraż, Przemyślany, common in Złoczów; Brody)
A: from ‘Schwertklinge’ [German] sword blade(?) {Zwerdiig, Zwerling, Zwertling, Zwerlinger}.

From A Dictionary Of Jewish Surnames From Galicia by Alexander Beider


The Zwerdling family name appears to have originated in the region of Galicia in Austria-Hungary around 1788, which is when the Austrian emperor decreed every citizen must use a German-style hereditary surname.