Zalman (name)

Zalman (זלמן) is a Yiddish-language variant of Solomon. The name was common among East European Jews, and it still has usage in many Haredi and especially Hasidic communities all over the world. Some of the founders of modern Israel bore this name, including Zalman Shazar, 3rd Israeli president. Nowadays this is not a common name in the modern secular Israeli circles, being identified as "a diaspora name".

Zalman is also used as a surname, and it is specially common in Israel and U.S.A.

"Zalman" has been claimed by some to be ethimologically related to the Pashtun name "Zalmeh","Zalmai" or "Zalmay"; the latter is a name among the Pashtuns of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The compound "Shneur Zalman" is common among people of Hasidic Chabad affiliation, derived from their founder Shneur Zalman of Liadi.

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