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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hindu, Muslim, and Jain name found in Gujarat, India, and among people from Sind, Pakistan, meaning ‘(descendant) of Vir’. Vir (from Sanskrit vīra ‘hero’) must be an ancestral personal name or the initial element of an ancestral personal name such as Virender.

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