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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from an Arabic name denoting a follower of Mūsā al-Kāzim (died 1183), the seventh imam of the Shiite Muslims, who is revered as a saint. Kāzim means ‘one who controls his anger’.

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