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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Anwar

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim (widespread throughout the Muslim world) : from a personal name based on Arabic anwar ‘brighter’, an elative adjective derived from nur ‘light’. Anwār (with a long a) is the plural of nūr (see Noor) and means ‘rays (of light)’.

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