Mansur

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic maṇsūr ‘victorious’, ‘triumphant’. This word is found in compound names such as Maṇsūr-ud-Dīn ‘victorious in religion’. The second of the Abbasid khalifs was Al-Maṇsūr Abu-Ja‛far (c. 712–75), who built the city of Baghdad in 762 and is considered the real founder of the Abbasid khalifate.