Arabic Submitted Surnames

Hamoud Arabic
Derived from the given name Hamoud.

Hamouda Arabic
Derived from the given name Hamoud.

Hamri Arabic (Maghrebi)

Hamza Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Hamza.

Hamzaoui Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Hamza.

Hamzi Arabic
Derived from the given name Hamza.

Hanae Arabic (Maghrebi)
From a Moroccan transcription of the Arabic name Hana 1 or Hanaa.

Hanafi Arabic
Derived from the given name Hanafi.

Hanafy Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Arabic حنفي (see Hanafi) chiefly used in Egypt.

Haneef Arabic, Urdu, Dhivehi
From the given name Hanif.

Hani Arabic
Derived from the given name Hani.

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

Hannachi Arabic (Maghrebi)
Refers to Hanencha, a tribe inhabiting eastern Algeria and western Tunisia.

Hanoun Arabic
Derived from Arabic حنون (hanun) meaning "loving, fond, affectionate" or "merciful, compassionate".

Hany Arabic (Egyptian)
Derived from the given name Hani.

Harb Arabic
Means "war" in Arabic.

Haris Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Harith.

Harith Arabic
Derived from the given name Harith.

Haroon Urdu, Arabic, Dhivehi
From the given name Harun.

Haroun Arabic
Derived from the given name Harun.

Harun Arabic, Somali, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Harun.

Hasan Arabic, Bengali, Urdu, Persian
From the given name Hasan.

Hasbún Arabic (Hispanicized)
Spanish form of Hazboun.

Hasby Arabic (Egyptian)

Haseeb Arabic, Urdu
Derived from the given name Hasib.

Hashem Arabic, Bengali
From the given name Hashim.

Hashim Arabic, Urdu, Filipino, Tausug
From the given name Hashim.

Hashimi Arabic
From the given name Hashim, particularly denoting descent from the great-grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad.

Hashmi Arabic, Urdu
Alternate transcription of Hashimi.

Hasib Arabic, Bengali
From the given name Hasib.

Hassan Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Dhivehi, Filipino, Tausug, Maranao, Somali (Arabized)
From the given name Hassan.

Hassani Persian, Arabic, Swahili
From the given name Hassan.

Hassen Arabic
From the given name Hassen.

Hatam Arabic
From the given name Hatam.

Hatem Arabic
Derived from the given name Hatim.

Hatim Arabic
Derived from the given name Hatim.

Hattab Arabic (Maghrebi)

Hawa Arabic, Somali, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Hawa.

Hawayek Arabic
Variant of Howayek.

Hayat Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Turkish
From the given name Hayat.

Haydar Arabic
From the given name Haidar.

Hayder Arabic, Bengali
Derived from the given name Haidar.

Hayek Arabic
Means "weaver" in Arabic.

Haytham Arabic
Derived from the given name Haytham.

Hazboun Arabic
From the name of the ancient Biblical town of Heshbon located in present-day Jordan.

Hegazi Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Arabic حجازي (see Hijazi). This corresponds more closely with the Egyptian Arabic pronunciation of the name.

Hegazy Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Arabic حجازي (see Hijazi). This corresponds more closely with the Egyptian Arabic pronunciation of the name.

Heider Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi, Bengali, Arabic
From the given name Haidar.

Helal Arabic, Bengali
Derived from the given name Hilal.

Helan Arabic

Helmi Arabic
From the given name Hilmi.

Helmy Arabic (Egyptian)
Derived from the given name Helmi.

Hemeida Arabic

Hesham Arabic (Egyptian)
Derived from the given name Hisham.

Hicham Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Hicham.

Hichem Arabic (Maghrebi)
From the given name Hichem, a variant of Hisham; mainly found in Algeria.

Hidad Arabic
In Arabic this means "black smith".

Hidayat Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Hidayat.

Hijazi Arabic
Denotes someone who was originally from the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.

Hikmat Arabic
Derived from the given name Hikmat.

Hilal Arabic
From the given name Hilal.

Hili Arabic (Maghrebi)

Hilmi Arabic
From the given name Hilmi.

Himam Arabic (Maghrebi)

Hindi Hindi, Arabic, Persian, Turkish
Denotes someone from India.

Hisham Arabic
From the given name Hisham.

Hishmeh Arabic
From Arabic حشمة (hishmah) meaning "modesty, decency".

Hlimi Arabic (Maghrebi)

Hoceimi Arabic (Maghrebi, Rare)
Habitational name for someone originally from Al Hoceima, a town and province in Algeria.

Hopy Arabic (Egyptian)

Horse Arabic (?)

Hosni Arabic
From the given name Husni.

Hosny Arabic
Derived from the given name Husni.

Hossam Arabic
Derived from the given name Husam.

Hurgada Arabic (Egyptian)
Alternate transcription of Hurghada.

Hurghada Arabic (Egyptian)
Habitational name for someone who lived in Hurghada, Egypt.

Husain Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
From the given name Husayn.

Husaini Persian, Afghan, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Hausa
From the given name Husayn.

Husni Arabic
Derived from the given name Husni.

Hussaini Persian, Afghan, Urdu, Arabic
From the given name Hussain.

Husseini Persian, Afghan, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali
From the given name Husayn.

Hussien Arabic
Derived from the given name Husayn.

Hyder Arabic, Urdu, Bengali
Derived from the given name Haidar.

Iaïche Arabic (Maghrebi)
Variant of Iaiche based on French orthography.

Iaiche Arabic (Maghrebi)
Alternate transcription of Arabic يعيش (see Yaiche).

Ibourk Arabic

Ibraheem Arabic, Urdu
From the given name Ibrahim.

Ibrahem Kurdish, Arabic
From the given name Ibrahim.

Ibrahimi Pashto, Arabic, Albanian
From the given name Ibrahim.

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.

Ismaeil Arabic (Egyptian)

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)

Jebabli Arabic (Maghrebi)

Jebali 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.

Kahil Arabic (Egyptian)

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

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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.

Kardjena Arabic (Maghrebi)

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.

Kermadi Arabic (Maghrebi)

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.

Khelifi Arabic (Maghrebi)

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.

Krai Arabic (Maghrebi)

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

Ktila Arabic (Maghrebi)

Laarif Arabic (Maghrebi)

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.

Lamlas Arabic (Maghrebi)

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.

Mahamid Arabic, Jewish

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 (Egyptian)
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.