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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from the Arabic family name Ghaffārī, denoting someone descended from an ancestor bearing the name Ghaffār, from Arabic ghaffār ‘merciful’. Al-Ghaffār ‘the Merciful’ is an attribute of Allah.

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