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Re: Origin and info about the surname Nassar?
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Nassar is found as a surname of Christian families in Lebanon and Palestine. There was also a leading Shi'ite family of South Lebanon of this name - I don't know if it is extant.
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My fiance is from Lebanon [I'm asking about his/soon-to-be mine last name] and I know Christianity is large there or popular in certain areas but his family is Muslim from Tripoli.
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That's interesting, because Tripoli (Lebanon) is a mainly Sunni Muslim city. The name is clearly non-sectarian.
There is a list of Tripolitan family names here -
http://www.tripoli-city.org/people.html#N
Nasr and Nasser are listed, but not Nassar. I believe the spelling Nasser is stressed on the first syllable, Nassar on the second, so likely to be different names with similar meaning.
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Yes and he is Sunni [Un practising now though].. and I know it doesn't have to be related to religion. :)
I thought that maybe he had some Egyptian in him because I believed the origin was of that. My father also said that it was Egyptian spelling.Yes, the first syllable is stressed and the main
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