Frequency: (117)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Iranian and Jewish (from Iran): from the Persian form of Arabic ’ikhwān ‘brethren’, ‘friends’, ‘companions’.
GIVEN NAMES: Iranian 73%; Jewish 4%. Hamid (4), Farideh (2), Afshin, Ali Akbar, Assad, Bahram, Cyrous, Fatemeh, Habib, Hafez, Haleh, Hashem; Meyer, Shalom.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
