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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Turkish, Iranian, and Muslim generally : ethnic name for a Greek. It is ultimately derived from Greek Iōn ‘Ionian’, the tribe of Greeks with whom the Persians had first contact. This term was subsequently borrowed into Hebrew and Arabic, and later came to be used in the Muslim world at large to denote a Greek.

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