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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Indian (Panjab) : Hindu (Rajput) and Sikh name based on the name of Rajput and Jat tribes.
  • Muslim : possibly an altered form of Minhāj, a personal name based on Arabic minhāj ‘method’, ‘order’, ‘way’. Minhāj al-Siraj was the author of a well-known 13th-century history of India.

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