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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from an Arabic personal name, ̣Hamdān ‘much praise’, a derivative of Hamid. ̣Hamdān was the name of a tribe in Arabia. The Hamdani dynasty ruled al-Jazira and Syria from 905 to 1004.

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