Family name origins & meanings
- Hindu and Muslim name found in Gujarat, India, and among people from Sind, Pakistan, meaning ‘descendant of Dhan’. Dhan (meaning ‘wealth’) is a shortened form of an ancestral name beginning with this element, for example Dhanesh ‘lord of wealth’ (from Sanskrit dhana ‘wealth’ + īša ‘lord’) or Dhanaraj ‘king of wealth’ (from dhana ‘wealth’ + rājā ‘king’).