Is simmons a jewish name in UK?

Question:what about yarrow or yarborough or yarbrough? we are lost.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: what about yarrow or yarborough or yarbrough? we are lost.

All Brit in origin, which isn't to say that some weren't Jewish by Religion, or that an immigrant didn't change his name to something a little more anglicised.
Should you find an ancestor whom you suspect to be Jewish, you could contact the Jewish Historical Society who have pretty extensive archives and Family Trees submitted by members.

damn right it is

It can be a Jewish name anywhere but it does not mean that it is specifically a Jewish name. Actually, I believe a lot of names in the U.S. get identified as Jewish as a large portion of the people who immigrated to the U. S. with a particular name were Jewish while back in their original countries they were common for Jews and non Jews alike.

There are 3 branches of Judaism and they don't define a Jew the same way.

Orthodox (oldest, but now probably the smallest) and Conservative define a Jew as someone who has a Jewish mother, not necessarily a Jewish father. They state they get the nation from the mother and the tribe from the father. If they don't have a Jewish father, they belong to the tribe of the nearest male relative on the mother's side of the family. So, a person can have the name McGillicuddy and be a Jew as long as they have a Jewish mother according to Orthodox and Conservative Judaism.

Reform Jews will accept a person as a Jew if they are being raised in the Jewish faith and have a Jewish father only. Orthodox Jews state they cannot be Jews unless they convert.

Simmons
English (southern): patronymic either from the personal name Simon (see Simon) or, as Reaney and Wilson suggest, from the medieval personal name Simund (composed of Old Norse sig ‘victory’ + mundr ‘protection’), which after the Norman Conquest was taken as an equivalent Simon, with the result that the two names became confused.

Yarrow
habitational name from a place so called, named for the river on which it stands, one in the Border region of Scotland, the other in Lancashire, both named with Welsh garw ‘rough’.
topographic name for someone who lived in a place overgrown with yarrow, Old English gearwe.
Dictionary of American

Yarborough
English (Lincolnshire): variant of Yarbrough.

Hope this helps.