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Updated January 2, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a variant of Arabic nadhīr ‘warner’. Al-Nadhīr ‘the Warner’ is an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad, in the sense ‘one sent by Allah to warn mankind’ (Qur’an 7:188).

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