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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic ̣sālịh ‘pious’, ‘righteous’, ‘virtuous’ (see the Qur’an 26: 83). Saleh is the name of a messenger of Allah (see the Qur’an 7:75). This name is widespread throughout the Muslim world.

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