American Family Name Origins:
Rabbani
Frequency: (108)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Muslim (common in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan): from a personal name based on Arabic rabbānī ‘divine’, a derivative of Arabic rabb ‘lord’, ‘master’. Al-Rabb ‘the Lord’ is an attribute of Allah. See the Qur’an 1:2: ‘All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the universe.’
GIVEN NAMES: Muslim 83%. Golam (3), Jamal (3), Sayed (3), Tariq (3), Mohammad (2), Riaz (2), Shahram (2), Ahmad, Ahmed, Amir, Ayaz, Badr.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
