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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic ̣samad ‘everlasting’. As-Samad ‘the Everlasting’ is an epithet of Allah (Qur’an 112: 2). As a personal name, this is normally found in the combination ‛Abd al-̣Samad (Abdus-̣Samad) ‘servant of the Lord’.

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