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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : Arabic family name (̣Siddīqī) meaning ‘descended from or associated with ̣Siddīq’. ̣Siddīq is a personal name meaning ‘truthful’ or ‘righteous’; it was an epithet of the first ‘rightly guided’ caliph, Abu Bakr, who ruled 632–634 (see Abu). This name is also found in combinations such as ̣Siddīq-ullah ‘truthful to Allah’, an epithet of the prophet Yusuf.

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