 Many Sephardic Jews adopted Spanish or Arabic names, like "Toledo", "Bejarano", "Azizi" ("you're [someones] love"), "Hassan" or added words to their original names, like Beizaee( "Iza", God is perfection), "Kohenzadeh" ("[she] bore a Kohen").Names like "Johnson" and "Peterson" may be used in Jewish tradition as they too used the father's name as identification.So "Johnson" in Hebrew is "Ben Yochanon", meaning "Yochanon (John)'s son".