Family name origins & meanings
- Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic shāfi‛ or shafī‛ ‘intercessor’, ‘mediator’ (see the Qur’an 10:3). Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shāfi‛ (767–820) was the founder of a school of Islamic law.
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