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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic latīf ‘kind’, ‘gentle’. Al-Latīf ‘the Kind’ is an attribute of Allah. This name is found in combinations such as ‛Abd-al-Latīf ‘servant of the Kind’.

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