Arabic Submitted Surnames

Idrees Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Idris 1.

Idreis Arabic

Idris Arabic
From the given name Idris 1.

Idrissi Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Idriss (chiefly Moroccan).

Iftikhar Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Iftikhar.

Ihsan Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Ihsan.

Ikram Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Ikram.

Ilyas Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Ilyas.

Imam Arabic, Bengali, Persian, Urdu
From Arabic إِمَام (ʾimām) meaning "leader, guide", used to denote a Muslim leader.

Iman Arabic
From the given name İman.

Imran Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Imran.

Imtiaz Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
Derived from the given name Imtiyaz.

Iqbal Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Iqbal.

Irfan Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Irfan.

Isa Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Isa 1.

Isam Arabic
Derived from the given name 'Isam.

Ishag Arabic (Mashriqi)
Derived from the given name Ishaq (chiefly used in Sudan).

Ishak Arabic
From the given name Ishak.

Ishaq Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Ishaq.

Iskandar Arabic
From the given name Iskandar.

Iskander Arabic
From the given name Iskandar.

Islam Arabic, Bengali, Urdu
From the given name Islam.

Islami Persian, Urdu, Arabic, Albanian
From the given name Islam.

Ismaeel Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Isma'il.

Ismael Arabic, Filipino, Tausug
From the given name Isma'il.

Ismail Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Dhivehi, Somali (Arabized)
From the given name Isma'il.

Ismaili Arabic, Albanian, Persian
From the given name Ismail.

Ismat Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
Derived from the given name 'Ismat.

Israr Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Israr.

Issa Arabic
Derived from the given name عيسى (see Isa 1).

Ithan Arabic

Jaafar Arabic
Derived from the given name Jafar.

Jabar Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Jabbar.

Jabari Arabic
From the given name Jabbar.

Jabbar Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Jabbar.

Jabbari Persian, Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of Jabari.

Jaber Arabic
From the given name Jabir.

Jabeur Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Jabir.

Jabir Arabic
From the given name Jabir.

Jabr Arabic
From the given name Jabr

Jadallah Arabic
Means "the generosity of Allah" in Arabic.

Jadan Arabic

Jadine Arabic (Maghrebi)

Jafar Arabic, Persian
From the given name Jafar

Jaffar Arabic
From the given name Jaffar

Jaffer Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Jafar.

Jahlan Arabic

Jalal Arabic, Bengali, Urdu
From the given name Jalal.

Jaleel Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Jalil.

Jalil Arabic, Persian
From the given name Jalil

Jamal Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Persian
Derived from the given name Jamal.

Jamali Persian, Arabic (Maghrebi), Urdu
From the given name Jamal.

Jameel Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Jamil.

Jamig Arabic

Jamil Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
Derived from the given name Jamil.

Jammal Arabic

Jandali Arabic

Jaouad Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Jaouad.

Jaouadi Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Jaouad (chiefly Tunisian).

Jaouhari Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from Arabic جَوْهَر (jawhar) meaning "jewel, gem, essence" (chiefly Moroccan).

Jaradat Arabic
Means "locusts, grasshoppers" in Arabic.

Jawabreh Arabic

Jawad Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Jawad.

Jawdat Arabic
Derived from the given name Jawdat.

Jaziri Arabic (Maghrebi)

Jelassi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Variant of Jlassi (chiefly Tunisian).

Jendoubi Arabic (Maghrebi)
From Jendouba, the name of a large city in northwestern Tunisia. The name itself is derived from Berber (Tamazight) jen meaning "market" and douba meaning "wheat".

Jialan Arabic

Jibril Arabic
From the given name Jibril.

Jilani Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Jilani.

Jiwani Arabic

Jkitou Arabic (Maghrebi)

Jlassi Arabic (Maghrebi), Berber
From the name of an Tamazight (Berber) tribal confederation in Tunisia; the name could be from Arabic إِخْلَاص (ʾiḵlāṣ) meaning "sincerity, devotion, loyalty" or of unknown Berber meaning.

Joubran Arabic
Derived from the given name Jubran.

Jubran Arabic
Derived from the given name Jubran.

Judeh Arabic
From Arabic جودة (jawdah) meaning "excellence, goodness".

Juma Swahili, Arabic
From the given name Juma.

Junaid Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Junayd.

Kabir Arabic, Bengali, Urdu
From the given name Kabir.

Kachiri Arabic (Maghrebi, Rare)

Kaddara Arabic (Maghrebi)

Kaddour Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Kaddour.

Kadet Arabic (Maghrebi)

Kadhim Arabic

Kadi Northern African, Arabic (Maghrebi)

Kadir Arabic
From the given name Qadir.

Kadri Arabic
From the given name Qadir.

Kahwaji Arabic (Mashriqi)
Arabized form of Turkish Kahveci, chiefly used in Lebanon.

Kalban Arabic

Kamel Arabic
From the given name Kamal 1.

Kamil Arabic
Derived from the given name Kamil 1.

Kandel Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Arabic قنديل (see Qandil).

Kandil Arabic
Means "lamp, candle, lantern" in Arabic.

Kandil Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic قنديل (see Qandil).

Karam Arabic, Urdu, Persian
Derived from the given name Karam.

Kareem Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Karim.

Kashgari Uyghur, Arabic
Originally denoted someone who came from the city of Kashgar, located in the Xinjiang region of western China. The city's name is of Persian origin probably meaning "rock mountain".

Kashif Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Kashif.

Kasim Arabic, Filipino, Maguindanao, Tausug
From the given name Qasim.

Kasmi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Variant of Kissami, used more frequently in modern times.

Kassem Arabic
From the given name Kassem, a form of Qasim.

Kateb Arabic
From Arabic كَاتِب (kātib) meaning "writer, scribe, clerk".

Kattan Arabic
Alternate transcription of Arabic قطان (see Qattan).

Kazim Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic
From the given name Kazim.

Kenyou Arabic

Kenz Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghrebi)

Kenza Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Kenza.

Khader Arabic
From the given name Khidr.

Khairy Arabic
Derived from the given name Khayri.

Khalaf Arabic
From the given name Khalaf.

Khaldi Arabic
From the given name Khalid.

Khaleel Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Khalil.

Khalidi Arabic
From the given name Khalid.

Khalifa Arabic
From the given name Khalifa.

Khalil Arabic, Bengali, Urdu
From the given name Khalil.

Khalili Persian, Arabic
From the given name Khalil.

Khaliq Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Khaliq.

Khamees Arabic
From the given name Khamees.

Khamis Arabic
Derived from the given name Khamis.

Kharban Arabic, Persian

Khashoggi Arabic
Arabized form of the Turkish surname Kaşıkçı.

Khateeb Arabic, Urdu
Arabic alternate transcription of Khatib as well as the Urdu form.

Khattab Arabic

Khelif Northern African, Arabic (Maghrebi)

Khelifa Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Khelifa.

Khelil Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from the given name Khalil.

Khouri Arabic
Alternate transcription of Khoury.

Khoury Arabic
Means "priest" in Arabic, ultimately from Latin curia meaning "court". It is mostly used by Arabic-speaking Christians.

Kial Arabic (Maghrebi)

Kira Arabic (Egyptian)

Kissami Arabic (Maghrebi)
Means "descendants of Qasim" in Arabic. This was the name of a Moroccan family descended from the Idrisid dynasty.

Knifati Arabic
Means "Knafeh maker," given to pasty makers specializing in Knafeh, a filo-dough middle-eastern pastry typically filled with cheese and syrup.

Kojak Arabic

Kojok Arabic

Koko Arabic (Egyptian), Eastern African

Kotb Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Arabic قطب (see Qutb) chiefly used in Egypt.

Kouri Arabic (Maghrebi)
Variant of Khoury.

Koussa Arabic
Probably comes from Moroccan Darija, when Koussa mean "homosexuality", people with this name were seen as homosexual and had no choice.

Krim Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from the given name Karim.

Laayouni Arabic (Maghrebi)
From Laayoune, the name of a city in the Western Sahara (chiefly Moroccan).

Labidi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from Arabic عابد (ʿābid) "worshiper, adorer, server" (chiefly Tunisian).

Lahlou Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from Arabic حُلْو (ḥulw) meaning "sweet" or "nice, charming", chiefly used in Moroccan Arabic.

Lahmar Arabic (Maghrebi)
Means "the red (one)", derived from Arabic الأحمر (al-ʾaḥmar).

Lahoud Arabic (Mashriqi)
Means either "one who stands alone" or "one and only" in Aramaic, given in reference to Jesus Christ. This is the surname of a Lebanese Christian family prominent in Maronite politics. One of the family members, Émile Lahoud (1936-), became the eleventh President of Lebanon.

Lamae Arabic

Lamari Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of El Amari.

Lamrani Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of El Amrani. A famous bearer is former Moroccan prime minister Mohammed Karim Lamrani (1919-2018).

Lamrini Arabic (Maghrebi)
Meaning unknown; Possibly a variant of Lemrini.

Larbaoui Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Larbi.

Larine Arabic (Maghrebi)

Laroussi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of El Aroussi.

Lateef Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Latif.

Latif Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Latif.

Layla Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Layla.

Lazrak Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from Arabic الأزرق (al ʾazraq) meaning "the blue (one)", from أَزْرَق (ʾazraq) "blue". It is chiefly used for Moroccan Arabic.

Leabinica Arabic

Lehlou Arabic (Maghrebi)
Rarer variant of Lahlou.

Lemkheitir Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Khatir, chiefly used in Mauritania.

Lemrini Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of El Merini.

Loghmari Arabic (Maghrebi)

Lokman Arabic, Bengali
Derived from the given name Luqman.

Lotfi Persian, Arabic
From the given name Lotfi.

Lotfy Arabic (Egyptian)
Derived from the given name Lutfi.

Loutha Arabic (Maghrebi)

Lukman Arabic
Derived from the given name Luqman.

Luqman Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Luqman.

Maalouf Arabic
Derived from the Arabic word "mayuuf" (معيوف), meaning "exempted" or "protected".

Maan Arabic, Limburgish, Finnish
Of meaning unknown

Maarouf Arabic
From the given name Maruf.

Maaroufi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from the given name Maruf.

Maawad Spanish (Mexican, Rare), Arabic (Rare, ?)

Mabrouk Arabic
From the given name Mabrouk.

Madanat Arabic
Mainly found in Jordan.

Madani Arabic
Indicated a person from the city of Medina, itself from Arabic مدينة (madinah) meaning "city".

Madbouli Arabic (Egyptian)
Variant transcription of Madbouly.

Madbouly Arabic (Egyptian)
Egyptian surname of unknown meaning.

Magdy Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Majdi chiefly used in Egypt.

Maged Arabic (Egyptian)
Egyptian transcription of Majid.

Maghribi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from Arabic المغرب (al-Maghrib) meaning "the west", also referring to the country of Morocco. It could be used to refer to a Moroccan person or (in English) someone from the Maghreb region of Northern Africa.

Mahboub Arabic
From the given name Mahboub.

Mahbub Arabic, Bengali
From the given name Mahbub.

Mahdi Arabic, Persian
From the given name Mahdi.

Maher Arabic, Arabic (Egyptian)

Maher Arabic
From the given name Mahir.

Mahfoud Arabic
Derived from the given name Mahfuz.

Mahfouz Arabic
From the given name Mahfuz.

Mahfuz Arabic, Bengali
Derived from the given name Mahfuz.

Mahgoub Arabic
Derived from the given name Mahjoub.

Mahjoub Arabic
Derived from the given name Mahjoub.

Mahmood Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Mahmud.

Mahrez Arabic (Maghrebi)
From Arabic مُحْرَز (maḥraz) meaning "accomplished, achieved, attained". A notable bearer is Riyad Mahrez (1991-), an Algerian footballer.

Maizi Arabic (Maghrebi)

Majdi Arabic
Derived from the given name Majdi.

Majed Arabic
From the given name Majid.

Majeed Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Majid.

Majid Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Majid.

Makhlouf Arabic
From the given name Makhlouf.

Makhloufi Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Makhlouf.

Makhluf Arabic
Derived from the given name Makhluf.

Makram Arabic
Derived from the given name Makram.

Malaeb Arabic
Lebanese Druze name possibly derived from Arabic مَلْعَب (malʿab) meaning "scene, theatre, sport".

Malak Arabic
Derived from the given name Malak.

Malek Arabic, Persian
From the given name Malek.

Malik Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Malik 1.

Malkawi Arabic (Arabized)
The surname 'Malkawi' deprives from the town of Malka, a small village in Jordan bordering Syria.

Malki Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Malik 1.

Mallem Arabic (Maghrebi)
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Mamdouh Arabic
From the given name Mamduh.

Mamoun Arabic
Derived from the given name Mamun.

Mamri Arabic (Maghrebi, Rare)

Mamun Arabic, Bengali
From the given name Mamun.

Mansoor Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Mansur.

Mansor Arabic
Derived from the given name Mansur.

Mansour Arabic
From the given name Mansur.

Mansour Arabic (Egyptian)
Originally referred to someone from the city of Mansoura (المنصورة‎) in Egypt.

Mansouri Persian, Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Mansur.

Mansur Arabic
From the given name Mansur.

Maqbool Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Maqbul.

Maqsood Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Maqsud.

Mariam Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Somali, Amharic
From the given name Maryam.

Marih Arabic (Maghrebi)

Marji Arabic
From Arabic مرج (marj) meaning "meadow".

Marnissi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Meaning unknown.

Maroof Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Maruf.

Maroon Arabic (Americanized)
Americanized form of Maroun.

Marouani Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Marwan.

Marouf Arabic
From the given name Maruf.

Maroufi Persian, Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Marouf.

Maroun Arabic
Derived from the given name Marun.

Marrakchi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Habitational name for someone originally from the city of Marrakesh in Morocco.

Maruf Arabic, Bengali
Derived from the given name Maruf.

Marzouk Arabic
From the given name Marzouq.

Marzouki Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Marzouq (chiefly Tunisian and Moroccan). A notable bearer is Moncef Marzouki (1945-), who was the fourth President of Tunisia from 2011 to 2014.

Marzouq Arabic
From the given name Marzouq.

Masood Arabic, Persian
From the given name Mas'ud

Masoud Arabic
Derived from the given name Mas'ud.

Masri Arabic
Means "Egyptian (person)" in Arabic.

Masry Arabic (Egyptian)
Egyptian transcription of Masri.

Massad Arabic
From a dialectal variant of the given name Mus'ad.

Massoud Arabic
Derived from the given name Mas'ud.

Mastour Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from Arabic مسْتُور (mastur) meaning "hidden, covered".

Masud Arabic, Bengali, Urdu
From the given name Mas'ud.

Matalka Arabic (Mashriqi)
Jordanian surname of uncertain meaning.

Mateen Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Matin.

Matin Arabic, Bengali, Persian
Derived from the given name Matin.

Max Arabic (Egyptian)

Mazigh Arabic (Maghrebi), Berber
Derived from Arabic أَمَازِيغ (ʾamāzīḡ) the Arabic designation for the Berber (Amazigh) people of North Africa. The word itself is ultimately of Tamazight origin, from Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ (Amaziɣ) of disputed meaning; in modern Central Atlas Tamazight, it means “free-man”.

Mazini Arabic (Maghrebi)
Possibly from Arabic مَزِين (mazīn) meaning “decorated, adorned” or مازن (mazin) meaning “rain cloud” (see Mazin; chiefly Moroccan).

Mazraoui Arabic (Maghrebi)

Mebarak Arabic (Hispanicized)
Castilianized form of Arabic Mubarak.

Mebarki Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Mebarek.

Medhat Arabic
Derived from the given name Midhat.

Medíc Arabic

Mehdaoui Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Mehdi.

Mehdi Arabic, Persian, Urdu
Derived from the given name Mehdi.

Mehdioui Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Mehdi.

Mekky Arabic (Egyptian)
Refers to the city of Mecca or Makka (مكة) in Saudi Arabia, considered the most holy city in Islam.

Merabet Arabic (Maghrebi)
Mainly found in Algeria.

Mernissi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Possibly a variant of Marnissi. A famous bearer was Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist Fatima Mernissi (1940-2015).

Merzouk Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from the given name Marzuq.

Mesaylah f Arabic

Mesbah Arabic (Maghrebi), Arabic (Egyptian)
Derived from Arabic مِصْبَاح (miṣbāḥ) meaning "lamp, light, luminary".

Messai Arabic

Messaoudi Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Mas'ud.

Messit Arabic

Metwalli Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Arabic متولي (see Metwally).

Metwally Arabic (Egyptian)
From Arabic متولي (mutawalli) meaning "responsible, entrusted with, charged with", ultimately from the word تَوَلَّى (tawalla) meaning "to take charge of, to take control of".

Metwaly Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Arabic متولي (see Metwally).

Meziani Arabic (Maghrebi), Berber
Variant of Meziane.

Mikha'il Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Mikha'il.

Mimoun Arabic (Maghrebi)
Derived from the given name Mimoun.

Mimoune Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of Mimoun.

Mimouni Arabic (Maghrebi), Judeo-Spanish
From the given name Mimoun.

Miraj Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
Derived from the given name Miraj.

Mirghani Northern African, Arabic
Sudanese name of unknown Arabic meaning.

Mishal Arabic
From the given name Mishal.

Misleh Arabic
Variation of Musleh. Means "peacemaker" or "social reformer" in Arabic.

Mobarak Arabic
From the given name Mubarak.

Mohamad Arabic
Derived from the given name Mohamad.

Mohamed Arabic, Dhivehi, Somali (Arabized)
From the given name Muhammad.

Mohammedi Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Mohammed (chiefly Algerian).

Mohannadi Arabic (Mashriqi)
Alternate transcription of Arabic المهندي (see al-Mohannadi).

Mohsen Arabic
From the given name Muhsin.

Mokhtar Arabic
From the given name Mukhtar.

Mokhtari Persian, Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Mokhtar.

Mokonin Russian, Arabic (Mashriqi)

Mokrani Berber, Northern African, Arabic (Maghrebi)
Either from the given name Mokrane or derived from El Mokrani, a town in Algeria.

Moneer Arabic
From the given name Munir

Monir Arabic
From the given name Munir

Monir Arabic (Egyptian), Bengali
Derived from the given name Munir.

Montaser Arabic
From the given name Muntasir.

Montasser Arabic
From the given name Muntasir.

Moosa Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Musa.

Morad Arabic, Persian
Derived from the given name Morad.

Morad Arabic (Egyptian)

Morceli Arabic (Maghrebi)
Possibly from Arabic مُرْسِل (mursil) meaning "sender, dispatcher" or "sent, transmitted" from أَرْسَلَ (ʾarsala) "to send, to dispatch".

Morrocco Arabic

Morrocco Arabic

Morshed Arabic, Bengali
Derived from the given name Morshed.

Mosa Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Sindhi, Dhivehi
From the given name Musa.