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Frequency: (110)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Indian (Panjab): Hindu (Rajput) and Sikh name based on the name of Rajput and Jat tribes.
2. Muslim: possibly an altered form of Minhāj, a personal name based on Arabic minhāj ‘method’, ‘order’, ‘way’. Minhāj al-Siraj was the author of a well-known 13th-century history of India.
GIVEN NAMES: Muslim 47%; Indian 40%. Ashfaq (3), Rashid (2), Raza (2), Tasleem (2), Ahmad, Babar, Faqir, Farooq, Haji, Hameed, Hamid, Iftakhar; Amit, Harcharn, Jit, Joga, Pritam, Rajpal, Sohan.
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