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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim (common in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India) : from Arabic mụhyī-ud-dīn ‘reviver of religion’. This title was bestowed on the religious scholar and saint Sheikh ‛Abdul Qadīr Jīlānī (1077–1166).

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