Last name origins & meanings:
- Muslim (found almost exclusively among Sunni Muslims): from an
Arabic personal name of uncertain etymology. It is thought to be
related to Arabic ‛āmir, which means ‘prosperous’, ‘full
of life’, ‘large’, ‘substantial’. The root word ‛umr means
‘life’. ‛Umar bin al-Khạṭtāb was the second of the ‘rightly
guided’ khalifs (ruled 634–44). He was known by the title
al-Fārūq ‘the distinguisher’, i.e. one who distinguishes
between truth and falsehood. He was one of the Companions of the
Prophet Muhammad. The Persian poet ‛Umar al-Khayyām (1048–1125),
also known in English as Omar Khayyam, is the author of the classic
poem, the Rubaiyyat.
- Catalan: topographic name for someone
who lived by a group of elm trees, from the collective form of
om ‘elm’.
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