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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic ābid ‘worshiper’. Ābid is also found as a component of compound names referring to one of the attributes of Allah, for example Ābidur-Rạhman ‘worshiper of the Most Gracious’.

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