Ansari
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Frequency: (634)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Muslim: from the Arabic name Anṣārī ‘one who traces his lineage to one of the Anṣār’. Anṣar is the plural of Nāṣir ‘friend’, ‘supporter’, a term traditionally used to denote the people of Medina who helped the Prophet Muhammad after the Hegira in 622 AD. Thābit ibn Qais al-Anṣārī was one of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad, to whom he gave the good news of entry into paradise.
GIVEN NAMES: Muslim 79%. Mohammad (24), Mohammed (10), Shahid (7), Abdul (6), Ali (6), Khalid (6), Mohsin (5), Amir (4), Hamid (4), Nadeem (4), Sajid (4), Aftab (3).
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