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.