Frequency: (345)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Muslim: Arabic family name (Ṭiddīqī) meaning ‘descended from or associated with Ṭiddīq’. Ṭiddīq is a personal name meaning ‘truthful’ or ‘righteous’; it was an epithet of the first ‘rightly guided’ caliph, Abu Bakr, who ruled 632-634 (see Abu). This name is also found in combinations such as Ṭiddīq-ullah ‘truthful to Allah’, an epithet of the prophet Yusuf.
GIVEN NAMES: Muslim 87%. Khalid (6), Mohammed (6), Mohammad (5), Faisal (4), Imran (4), Iqbal (4), Muhammad (4), Nasir (4), Imtiyaz (3), Jamal (3), Nadeem (3), Sultan (3).
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