You might simply enjoy a bit of a laugh, or this might give you just the inspiration you need to think of your own Purim theme.
We crowdsourced Jewish family names that have inspired a theme for Purim. While many of them are corny, they still bring a smile to your face and it’s a fun way to brainstorm that Purim theme that hasn’t quite come to you yet. Some of these are quite obvious, while others are a bit of a fun stretch.
Use this list as inspiration to turn your own
family name into a theme that’s personally yours.
B
El-Al / El-Baum
Any name with “ber” – do snowmen! TauBRR, BRRkowitz
Blum – Blumingdales
The Bornstein bears
The Bernstein Bears
BLOOMberg = flowers
Burger – I’m a Berger girl – picture of a burger, or Berger King
Our last name is Berger. One year I was a hamburger, my husband was a hot dog, and our twins were ketchup and mustard.
Barber – obvious
We did Bloom’s bakery last year!
This one is kinda obvious but beer for Beer, or bear like teddy bears, honey beers etc
“Bear”mans
C
Cohny island,
ice cream cohns
Construction cohns
Blown by Cohen – balloon sellers
E
Elefant family
F
FishEhrman
Folger coffee
Franck. Franks in blanks!
Fisherman
Fisher – Fisher Price “We Fishers are priceless…”
Fisherman and fish costumes work well for Fischer, Fishman, Fishberg, etc.
G
Goldenberg (locks) & the 3 bears
Walgreens for “Greenwald” backwards
My last name starts with “Gold” so I’ve done “gold” themes in the past
Our last name is Gamerman so we wanted to dress up as Gamer Men (different video games)
We did Gluckin Donuts instead of Dunkin
Ghershenzon – ghershenSUNs (as in a sun costume)
H
Haus of Rock (rock n roll band)
Haus of Cards (we dressed up as a deck of cards)
“Hirsch”eys Chocolate
Horo “witches”
HUSSkies
K
Cat in the Hat for Katz family
Klein’s Ice cream
My sister “Klein” was “Mr Klean” one year
Kahn = Kahn – Man (prisoners) or Kahn – Artist.
Kaufman – “cow”fman , “cough”man – nurses
L
My name is Lemel (Yiddish for sheep) I had one kid, he was 2 and we dressed him up in a lamb costume and my husband and I wore lamb ear headbands. I decorated cupcakes to look like sheep using mini marshmallows and gave green sour sticks as the “grass.” I wrote “simchas Purim from Mishpachas Lemel’ach” … to this day I think was my cutest Purim idea.
Last name Loebenberg: LoebenBEES, LoebenBURGERS, All around the GLOBEnberg, GLOWbenbergs (glow in dark), LoebenBIRDS, LoebenBURGLARS, Frozenbergs – Ice cream/winter theme
M
Mandel – soup mandel
My first name is Melissa and did “Baked by Melissa” one year
Munk-eys
Not a last name but we did Mindy mouse for my baby girl, Mindy’s first Purim! It was SOOOO cute!
Mason – “aMASON prime”
“Mouse”kowitzs for Moskowitz
N
Our last name starts with N so we were N&Ns (brown shirts) and all the kids wore shirt with a M&M character that matched, then we just changed the M’s to N’s.
Newman’s Own
Nussbaum – nut tree (in Yiddish)
Cin”neiman” with cinnamon theme
O
Ostreicher bakers gave out Ostreicher cookies 😉
P
Peiser and Pfeizer
R
Reisz puffs
S
Our last name is Stark so we went with StarKbucks one year
SchleSinger… musicians
The “singers”
Stern’s pastries
This is kinda specific but a girl in my school wore a nightgown for Purim years ago in the front it said “Mindy is….” And the back it said “Shlafrig” – which in Yiddish means tired. But lol this works if your’re Chassidish and your name is Shlafrig.
Siegfried – Chickfrieds – bird watchers
Shtickfrieds – magician
Seig “Freed” = prisoner
“Sick Free – nurses/drs
Our name is Shain and we did “Shaina panim” – everyone wore a diff emoji on a shirt!
We “stern” cowboys!
T
Teitelbaum – race car drivers. Tagline: “taking home the title-baum”
U
Uhr – Uhrthodontist, Popc”Uhrn”b, Uhrban Pops
SnUHRklers
FlUHRist
UHRthdentist
hUHRs backriders
UHRchester band
UHRange
DUHR MEN
3 blind “Weiss”
My sister is Weiss. She came up with a lifetime worth of rhymes: Weiss mice, slice of Weiss, Weiss ice, sugar and spice and everything Weiss…
“Wine”bergs
Z
Zoockerman for zoo (Zuckerman)
Misc.
My sister in law did this last Purim with the first names of her kids: Batsheva was a 7/11 slurpee, husband Abe was Abe’s Ice Cream, kid with initials h-m was H&M. Elazar Menachem was Menachem’s Dips. She put them together in a very creative and adorable way.
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