Zachary Levi
Birth Name: Zachary Levi Pugh
Place of Birth: Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 29, 1980
Ethnicity: English, Irish, French, German, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish, Swiss, remote Dutch and French Huguenot
Zachary Levi is an American actor, comedian, singer, and author. He plays Shazam! in the DC Cinematic Universe, and has also featured in the films Big Momma’s House 2, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Thor: The Dark World, She Loves Me, Office Uprising, The Mauritanian, American Underdog, and, in voice role, Tangled and The Star (2017); on the shows Chuck, Heroes Reborn, Alias Grace, Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; as well as in Broadway roles.
Zachary was born Zachary Levi Pugh, and is the son of Susan Marie (Hoctor) and Darrell Pugh. His birth name is pronounced pew. He has English, Irish, French, German, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish, Swiss [Swiss-French and Swiss-German], and remote Dutch, ancestry. Several of his family lines go back to Colonial America.
While Zachary was born in Louisiana, he has no family ancestry in the state. He was raised in Ventura, California. His father is from Minnesota and his mother was raised in California.
Zachary uses his middle name as his stage name, as he believed “Pugh” was too unusual-sounding. A decade after he became a known actor, English actor siblings Toby Sebastian (born Sebastian Toby Pugh) and Florence Pugh, who are not related to Zachary, also became well-known; Florence kept the surname, while Toby, like Zachary, uses his first two names (though in reverse order).
Zachary is sometimes incorrectly believed to be Jewish, because of his middle/stage name Levi. He is not of Jewish heritage or religion, and is a devout Christian.
Zachary’s patrilineal line evidently traces back to Francois De Puy, a Huguenot from Calais, France, and to his Dutch wife, Geertje Willemse Van Boerum, who was from Amsterdam.
Zachary’s paternal grandfather was Alton Lester Pugh (the son of Herman Lester Pugh and Delila/Delliah Mae Lovin, whose family’s surname was originally Loving). Alton was born in Kansas. Herman was the son of Martin Shaner Pugh and Jane/Jennie Louise/Louisa/Louis Clason. Delila was the daughter of Robert Lee Lovin and Mary Ellen Montgomery.
Zachary’s paternal grandmother was Alice Maureen Repp (the daughter of Harry Orris Repp and Merle Marie Carruth). Alice was born in Wisconsin. Harry was the son of Jacob Orris/Oris Repp and Lucy Ann Thurber. Merle’s father was Wallace Bradley Carruth, whose father was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and whose mother was born in Ontario, Canada, to English parents. Merle’s mother was Elizabeth Evangeline “Lizzie” Bucher, whose parents, Heinrich Caspar “Henry” Bucher and Mary Ann Welchle, were Swiss.
Zachary’s maternal grandfather was Arthur Edward Hoctor, Jr. (the son of Arthur Edward Hoctor and Louise F./P. Labadie). Zachary’s grandfather Arthur was born in Ohio. Zachary’s great-grandfather Arthur was the son of Thomas Francis Hoctor, who was born in New York, to parents from Tipperary, Ireland, and of Mary Minnie A. McDonald, whose father, and maternal grandparents, were Irish. Louise was born in Ohio, the daughter of John Labadie, who was French, and of Alice Amelia Flory, who was born in Ohio, to French parents.
Zachary’s maternal grandmother was Patricia Lee “Pat” Jones (the daughter of John Ralph Jones and Juliet Louise Schenck). Patricia was born in Missouri. John was the son of Lewis R. Jones, whose father was Welsh and whose mother was German, and of Anna/Annie Coughey, whose parents were Irish. Juliet was the daughter of Henry B. Schenck and Wilhelmina M. Minnie/”Mamie” Kuehl, and her grandparents were all German.
Sources: http://www.nytimes.com
Genealogies of Zachary Levi – https://gw.geneanet.org
https://www.geni.com
Obituary of Zachary’s paternal grandfather, Alton Lester Pugh – https://www.newspapers.com
Genealogies of Zachary’s paternal great-grandparents, Harry Orris Repp and Merle Marie Carruth – https://www.findagrave.com
Zachary’s maternal grandfather, Arthur Edward Hoctor, Jr., on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Zachary’s maternal grandmother, Patricia Lee Jones, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Zachary’s maternal great-grandfather, John Ralph Jones, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
He looks like a middle eastern Jew from Israel, has a Jewish first name and last name. I mean you can’t be any more Jewish than that.
Many “middle eastern Jews” are heavily admixed Ashkenazi Jews and they have common European phenotypes.
Old testament names like Zechariah and their variants are commonly used by gentiles.
Was Abraham Lincoln Jewish?
Levi isn’t his birth surname, Pugh is…
Everything about your post is ignorant or factually retarded.
Welsh language
Spoken language
Last name: Pugh. This name is of medieval Welsh origin, and is a Welsh patronymic form of the personal name “Hugh”, originally written as “ap Hugh”, as in the first recording below, where “ap” means “son of”, and over the years has been reduced and contracted to form “Pugh”, with the variants “Pughe” or “Pew”.
Surname Database: Pugh Last Name Origin
https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Pugh
They’re Middle Eastern
I thought he was a quadroon or octaroon. Then I found out he was born in Louisiana and assumed he was part creole (French/black). Then i assumed he was Jewish too.. Wrong on both counts!
He’s an american mutt so I thought there was a possibility.
Anyways I just thought he was mixed because of his roots. I was wrong.
Also i thought he was half Jewish as well. Turns out thats his middle name.
Why would you think that without doing the research?
And why would you post this after knowing that you are terrible at guessing a person’s ethnic origins?
Louisiana has a population of nearly 5 million and a scant 14,000 Jews.
This guy looks like a pretty typical western European and there is nothing about him at all that would give any indication of being biracial.
Even neiltennant is calling B.S. on your post and he has a pretty checkered posting record himself.
Have you forgotten the tens of thousands of white mulattos that escaped prosecution by forgoing their African ancestry and entering what was white/wasps society. plus 1/8th and less were allowed to be legally white.All I’m saying is that any wasps down south has a possibility of having African ancestry.Lots of wasps/Scots irish white Americans have about 1/8th black ancestry that they probably don’t know of cause it went unreported.This guy probably has about 10-25% African ancestry.
Are you forgetting the tens of thousands of white mulattos,who escaped prosecution by entering white/wasps society.A lot of African ancestry went unreported plus 1/8th and less were allowed to be legally white.Dude probably has about 10-25% black ancestry.Wasp +south of america=possibility of African ancestry.
There’s enough material to ban mathis troll.
There’s enough material to ban this troll.
Are we seriously going to ban every person who actually posts comments in the comments section?
This is not a positive development.
While I agree that no one should be banned does saying people who actually post comments mean some people don’t? not an accusation, I am curious
Given the history of the south,any wasps white man down south has the possibility of having significant African ancestry.His probably 10-25% black.His way to exotic looking to just be a wasp.If Taylor swift got Italian from god knows where,this guy definitely has African ancestry somewhere down the line.
Taylor Swift’s Italian ancestry is from here:
https://www.metro.us/news/local-news/philadelphia/taylor-swifts-great-grandpas-former-philly-home-gets-historic
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/celebrities/taylor-swifts-great-great-grandfathers-home-added-to-philadelphia-register-of-historic-places-20170714.html
This’ll teach me to make assumptions based on names alone.
Jewish surname. But no Jewish ancestry?
Levi is his middle name taken as his stage name. He has zero Jewish ancestry and he’s a Christian.
According to this site which is an expert of everything Jewish the reason why he took on Levi as his last name was because
“…his agent told him that with the last name Pugh (pronounced “Pew”), he won’t go far in Hollywood.” lol
http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=766