Frequency: (299)
(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 an adjectival derivative of Arabic saḥl ‘smooth’, ‘fluent’, ‘easy’. Abul Abbas Sahl ibn S῾ad was a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad.
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