Home | Guestbook | Photos | Contacts | Links | Family Tree

1. Last Name: Fawaz. Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic fawāz ‘winner of victories’. Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University

2. Last Name: Hamood. Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic ̣hammūd ‘much praising’, a derivative of ̣hmd ‘praise’

3.Last Name: Salah. Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic ̣salạ̄h ‘piety’, ‘righteousness’, ‘goodness’. ̣Sallạ̄h is used in combination with other words, for example ̣Sallạ̄h ud-Dīn (see Saladin). The name is widespread in all Muslim countries.

4.Last Name: Barri. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beargha ‘descendant of Beargh’, a byname meaning ‘plunderer’.English: habitational name from any of several places named with Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified manor house’, ‘stronghold’, such as Berry in Devon or Bury in Cambridgeshire, Greater Manchester, Suffolk, and West Sussex.

5.Last Name: Hashem. Muslim: from an Arabic personal name, Hāshim, the byname of the great-grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad, who provided for pilgrims coming to the Ka’ba (the holy temple) in Mecca each year. Hāshim literally means ‘crusher’. Hāshim, whose original name was ‛Amr, initiated a twice-yearly caravan (trading expedition) to Yemen and the Levant. The story goes that he returned from one such expedition bringing with him bread, which he crushed and distributed, earning him the nickname ‘the crusher’. The Kingdom of Jordan is known as ‘Hashemite’ because its rulers are descended from Hashim

6. Last Name: Haddad. Arabic and Jewish (Sephardic): occupational name for a blacksmith, Arabic ̣haddād

7. Last Name: Kannan. Indian: variant of Krishnan

                                        Home | Guestbook | Photos | Contacts | Links | Family Tree