Frequency: (151)
(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 Arabic jabari ‘adherent of the doctrine of predestination’.Al-Jabariya was an early Islamic school of thought that denied free will and maintained determinism and the inescapability of fate.
GIVEN NAMES: Muslim 12%. Marwan (3), Haifa, Hassan, Ibrahim, Said, Sami, Yousef, Zaina, Ziad.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
