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Updated February 29, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic ̣hāfiz ‘protector’. This is also an honorific title given to someone who has memorized the whole of the Qur’an. Al-̣Hāfiz ‘the Protector’ is an attribute of Allah.

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