Frequency: (128)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Arabic: from a personal name based on Arabic ῾aṠiyyah ‘gift’, ‘present’.
GIVEN NAMES: Arabic 25%. Anis (2), Fadi (2), Aboud, Arif, Aziz, Bassam, Habib, Hasan, Houda, Ibrahim, Jamil, Omar.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
