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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Arabic : variant of Atiyeh.
  • Jewish (Sephardic) : from Arabic ‛ạtiyyah ‘gift’, ‘present’; most likely a calque of a Jewish personal name with a similar meaning in Hebrew (for example, Nathan, Jonathan, or Nathaniel).

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