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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic sābit, thābit ‘strong’. Thābit ibn Arqam was one of the ten Companions of the Prophet Muhammad.
  • Jewish (Sephardic) : adoption of the Arabic name.

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