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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic mu’min ‘believer (in Islam)’, ‘pious person’. Al-Mu’min ‘the Believer’ is one of the names of Allah (Qur’an 59:23). It is also the title of the 40th sura of the Qur’an.

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