Middle Eastern Last Name Generator

Surnames from seven peoples, each one labeled

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500 surnames from across the Middle East, each followed by its language or people in parentheses, such as Yılmaz (Turkish), Hosseini (Persian), Haddad (Arabic, Levant), Cohen (Hebrew), Sarkissian (Armenian), Zebari (Kurdish) and Khoshaba (Assyrian).

About Middle Eastern last names

The Middle East has no single way of making a family name, so every entry here carries its language or people in parentheses. An Arabic family name can be a forefather's given name (Hamdan, Barakat), a trade (Haddad the smith, Najjar the carpenter), a place (Halabi from Aleppo, Nabulsi from Nablus) or a tribe, often with the article: Al- in the Gulf and Iraq, El- in Egypt.

Turkish surnames date from the Surname Law of 1934 and are mostly plain Turkish words, such as Yılmaz, Kaya and Demir. Persian ones, fixed in the 1920s, often end in -i, -zadeh (born of), -pour (son of) or -ian: Karimi, Alizadeh, Rahimpour, Rostamian. Hebrew surnames run from Cohen and Levi to modern choices like Peled and Golan. Armenian names end in -ian or -yan. The Kurdish names in this list point to a tribe or a home district, as in Zebari and Amedi, and Assyrian families often carry an old given name, such as Khoshaba or Odisho.

A label names a language or a people and nothing else. It says nothing about a family's faith, and many names cross the lines: Haddad, Najjar and Sarraf are carried by families of several communities. Names from the Maghreb, from Morocco to Libya, are left out, since the Arabic last name page covers them.

How to choose Middle Eastern last names

Drop the label when you use a name. The brackets are there to help you choose, so write Öztürk or Farahani, not the whole entry.
Pick the language first, then the name. A character from Shiraz needs a Persian surname and one from Izmir a Turkish one, and mixing them up is an easy mistake in fiction set in the region.
Keep the spelling of the language. Turkish names use ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş and ü, as in Çelik and Yıldırım. Arabic, Persian and Hebrew names are written in other scripts first, so their Latin spellings vary: choose one and stay with it.
Mind the article. Al-Otaibi and El-Sayed keep their Al- and El- in formal use, and the form of the article already hints at the Gulf or at Egypt.
For more depth on one group, go on to the Arabic, Turkish, Iranian, Israeli, Armenian and Egyptian last name pages linked below.

Frequently asked questions

What are common Middle Eastern last names?

It depends on the language. Among the best known are Yılmaz, Kaya and Demir in Turkish, Hosseini, Ahmadi and Mohammadi in Persian, Cohen and Levi in Hebrew, and Haddad, Khoury and Al-Otaibi in Arabic. The page gives no ranking, because the region has no single list to rank.

Why does every name have a label?

Because Middle Eastern describes a region, not a naming tradition. Yılmaz (Turkish), Karimi (Persian) and Sarkissian (Armenian) come from three unrelated languages with different rules, and the label tells you which one you are looking at. It names a language or a people, never a religion.

What do Al- and El- mean in Arabic surnames?

Both are the Arabic word for "the", spelled the way it is said locally: Al- in the Gulf and Iraq, El- in Egypt. Before a tribe or a place it marks someone of that group, so Al-Qahtani belongs to the Qahtan tribe and El-Masry means the Egyptian. Many families leave the article out in everyday use.

Can a given name be a surname in the Middle East?

Often, in Arabic. Fixed family names came late in much of the Arab world, and many families took the name of a father or grandfather, so Hamdan, Barakat and Fares are surnames as well as given names. Turkish, Persian and Armenian surnames are built with their own words and endings instead.

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All 500 Middle Eastern last names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 114 names

Abaza (Arabic, Egypt)
Abdel Aziz (Arabic, Egypt)
Abdel Rahman (Arabic, Egypt)
Abou Jaoude (Arabic, Lebanon)
Abrishami (Persian)
Abyad (Arabic, Levant)
Acar (Turkish)
Ahmadi (Persian)
Akbari (Persian)
Akbaş (Turkish)
Aksoy (Turkish)
Aksu (Turkish)
Aktaş (Turkish)
Aktürk (Turkish)
Al-Aidarus (Arabic, Yemen)
Al-Ajmi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Ameri (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Amoudi (Arabic, Yemen)
Al-Ani (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Attas (Arabic, Yemen)
Al-Azm (Arabic, Syria)
Al-Balushi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Basri (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Bazzaz (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Buainain (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Daraji (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Darmaki (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Dosari (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Dulaimi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Emadi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Enezi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Fadhli (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Fahdawi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Ghamdi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Ghanim (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Hadrami (Arabic, Yemen)
Al-Hammadi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Harbi (Arabic, Gulf)

A, continued

Al-Harthi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Hashimi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Hilli (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Hosani (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Issawi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Janabi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Jubouri (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Jumaili (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Kharusi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Khater (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Kubaisi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Kuwari (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Lawati (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Mamari (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Mansoori (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Marzooqi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Mashhadani (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Mohannadi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Mosuli (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Musawi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Mutairi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Mutawa (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Najafi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Naqbi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Obaidi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Otaibi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Qahtani (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Qattan (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Qazzaz (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Qubaisi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Rawi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Rikabi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Rumaithi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Saffar (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Samarrai (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Shakarchi (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Shammari (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Shatti (Arabic, Gulf)

A, continued

Al-Shehhi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Shehri (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Siyabi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Tuwaijri (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Wahaibi (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Yasiri (Arabic, Iraq)
Al-Zadjali (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Zahrani (Arabic, Gulf)
Al-Zoubi (Arabic, Jordan)
Alizadeh (Persian)
Almog (Hebrew)
Alon (Hebrew)
Amedi (Kurdish)
Amini (Persian)
Antaki (Arabic, Levant)
Aqrawi (Kurdish)
Arakelian (Armenian)
Ardalan (Kurdish)
Arıcı (Turkish)
Arıkan (Turkish)
Arslan (Turkish)
Asadi (Persian)
Ashkenazi (Hebrew)
Ashour (Arabic, Egypt)
Aslan (Turkish)
Asmar (Arabic, Levant)
Aswad (Arabic, Levant)
Ateş (Turkish)
Avcı (Turkish)
Avedisian (Armenian)
Avraham (Hebrew)
Awad (Arabic, Levant)
Ayaz (Turkish)
Aydın (Turkish)
Aytaç (Turkish)
Azadi (Persian)
Azizi (Persian)
Azzi (Arabic, Levant)

B: 30 names

Bafaqih (Arabic, Yemen)
Baghdadi (Arabic, Iraq)
Baghdasarian (Armenian)
Bahmani (Persian)
Bahrami (Persian)
Bajalan (Kurdish)
Bakhtiari (Persian)
Bal (Turkish)
Balcı (Turkish)
Bamarni (Kurdish)
Barakat (Arabic, Levant)
Basalamah (Arabic, Yemen)
Bayram (Turkish)
Bayrouti (Arabic, Lebanon)
Bedrossian (Armenian)
Behzadi (Persian)
Ben-Ami (Hebrew)
Ben-David (Hebrew)
Ben-Haim (Hebrew)
Ben-Shimon (Hebrew)
Benyamin (Assyrian)
Berwari (Kurdish)
Boghossian (Armenian)
Boroujerdi (Persian)
Boyajian (Armenian)
Bozan (Turkish)
Bozkurt (Turkish)
Bradosti (Kurdish)
Bulut (Turkish)
Bushehri (Persian)

C: 12 names

Çakır (Turkish)
Candan (Turkish)
Carmeli (Hebrew)
Çelebi (Turkish)
Çelik (Turkish)
Çetin (Turkish)
Çiftçi (Turkish)
Çoban (Turkish)
Cohen (Hebrew)
Corm (Arabic, Lebanon)
Coşar (Turkish)
Coşkun (Turkish)

D: 20 names

Dabdoub (Arabic, Palestinian)
Dajani (Arabic, Palestinian)
Dalkılıç (Turkish)
Daneshvar (Persian)
Daou (Arabic, Lebanon)
Daouk (Arabic, Lebanon)
Darwish (Arabic, Levant)
Davoudi (Persian)
Dayan (Hebrew)
Değirmenci (Turkish)
Dehghan (Persian)
Demir (Turkish)
Demirci (Turkish)
Demirjian (Armenian)
Dezfuli (Persian)
Dizayee (Kurdish)
Doğan (Turkish)
Doski (Kurdish)
Douaihy (Arabic, Levant)
Duhoki (Kurdish)

E: 34 names

Ebrahimi (Persian)
Ebrahimzadeh (Persian)
Efrati (Hebrew)
Eid (Arabic, Levant)
Ekinci (Turkish)
El-Aswany (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Attar (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Bakry (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Dessouki (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Fayoumi (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Hawary (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Hefnawy (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Iskandarany (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Kashef (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Leithy (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Mahdy (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Masry (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Meligy (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Menshawy (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Naggar (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Sayed (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Sebai (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Sharkawy (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Sheikh (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Shenawy (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Sherbiny (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Sherif (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Shorbagy (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Zayat (Arabic, Egypt)
El-Zeiny (Arabic, Egypt)
Erdem (Turkish)
Erdoğdu (Turkish)
Esfahani (Persian)
Eskandari (Persian)

F: 10 names

Fahmy (Arabic, Egypt)
Farah (Arabic, Levant)
Farahani (Persian)
Fares (Arabic, Levant)
Farra (Arabic, Palestinian)
Farrokhzad (Persian)
Farshchian (Persian)
Fawzy (Arabic, Egypt)
Fazeli (Persian)
Foroughi (Persian)

G: 20 names

Gabay (Hebrew)
Galili (Hebrew)
Garabedian (Armenian)
Gebara (Arabic, Levant)
Gevorgyan (Armenian)
Gewargis (Assyrian)
Ghali (Arabic, Egypt)
Ghandour (Arabic, Levant)
Ghanem (Arabic, Levant)
Gharaibeh (Arabic, Jordan)
Ghasemi (Persian)
Ghasemzadeh (Persian)
Ghattas (Arabic, Levant)
Ghorbani (Persian)
Ghosn (Arabic, Lebanon)
Golan (Hebrew)
Golestani (Persian)
Grigoryan (Armenian)
Güler (Turkish)
Güneş (Turkish)

H: 31 names

Habibi (Persian)
Haddad (Arabic, Levant)
Hagopian (Armenian)
Hajj (Arabic, Levant)
Hakimian (Persian)
Hakobyan (Armenian)
Halabi (Arabic, Syria)
Halevi (Hebrew)
Hamadeh (Arabic, Lebanon)
Hamdan (Arabic, Levant)
Hamedani (Persian)
Handal (Arabic, Palestinian)
Harari (Hebrew)
Harutyunyan (Armenian)
Hashemi (Persian)
Hassanpour (Persian)
Hawleri (Kurdish)
Hawrami (Kurdish)
Hazan (Hebrew)
Hazboun (Arabic, Palestinian)
Hedayat (Persian)
Heidari (Persian)
Helou (Arabic, Lebanon)
Herki (Kurdish)
Homsi (Arabic, Syria)
Hormiz (Assyrian)
Hosny (Arabic, Egypt)
Hosseini (Persian)
Hosseinzadeh (Persian)
Hovhannisyan (Armenian)
Hovsepian (Armenian)

I: 5 names

Idlibi (Arabic, Syria)
Isho (Assyrian)
Işık (Turkish)
Izadi (Persian)
İzmirli (Turkish)

J: 6 names

Jaf (Kurdish)
Jafari (Persian)
Jahangiri (Persian)
Jajo (Assyrian)
Jalali (Persian)
Jamshidi (Persian)

K: 48 names

Kabbani (Arabic, Syria)
Kabbara (Arabic, Levant)
Kahana (Hebrew)
Kalasho (Assyrian)
Kalaycı (Turkish)
Kamali (Persian)
Kanafani (Arabic, Palestinian)
Kaplan (Turkish)
Kara (Turkish)
Karam (Arabic, Lebanon)
Karapetyan (Armenian)
Karataş (Turkish)
Karimi (Persian)
Kashani (Persian)
Kassar (Arabic, Levant)
Kassir (Arabic, Levant)
Katz (Hebrew)
Kaviani (Persian)
Kaya (Turkish)
Kayali (Arabic, Syria)
Kazanjian (Armenian)
Kazemi (Persian)
Kermani (Persian)
Keshishian (Armenian)

K, continued

Keskin (Turkish)
Kevorkian (Armenian)
Khachatryan (Armenian)
Khalidi (Arabic, Palestinian)
Khansari (Persian)
Khayyat (Arabic, Levant)
Khazen (Arabic, Lebanon)
Khorasani (Persian)
Khoshaba (Assyrian)
Khoshnaw (Kurdish)
Khosravi (Persian)
Khoury (Arabic, Levant)
Kiani (Persian)
Kılıç (Turkish)
Kıran (Turkish)
Kirkuki (Kurdish)
Koç (Turkish)
Konyalı (Turkish)
Korkmaz (Turkish)
Kouyoumdjian (Armenian)
Krikorian (Armenian)
Kurt (Turkish)
Kuru (Turkish)
Kuzbari (Arabic, Syria)

L: 3 names

Lahiji (Persian)
Lavi (Hebrew)
Levi (Hebrew)

M: 27 names

Maalouf (Arabic, Lebanon)
Maatouk (Arabic, Levant)
Mahfouz (Arabic, Egypt)
Mahmoudi (Persian)
Majali (Arabic, Jordan)
Makram (Arabic, Egypt)
Maleki (Persian)
Malkawi (Arabic, Jordan)
Manoukian (Armenian)
Mardirossian (Armenian)
Mashhadi (Persian)
Masri (Arabic, Levant)
Melamed (Hebrew)
Melkonian (Armenian)
Memarian (Persian)
Mikhail (Arabic, Egypt)
Minassian (Armenian)
Mirzaei (Persian)
Mizrahi (Hebrew)
Mizuri (Kurdish)
Mkrtchyan (Armenian)
Moghaddam (Persian)
Mohammadi (Persian)
Mohammadpour (Persian)
Moradi (Persian)
Moukarzel (Arabic, Lebanon)
Mousavi (Persian)

N: 11 names

Nabulsi (Arabic, Palestinian)
Nader (Arabic, Levant)
Nahmani (Hebrew)
Najarian (Armenian)
Najjar (Arabic, Levant)
Nakhleh (Arabic, Levant)
Nalbandian (Armenian)
Nashashibi (Arabic, Palestinian)
Nazari (Persian)
Neyshabouri (Persian)
Nusseibeh (Arabic, Palestinian)

O: 12 names

Odeh (Arabic, Levant)
Odisho (Assyrian)
Ohanian (Armenian)
Okur (Turkish)
Oren (Hebrew)
Oruç (Turkish)
Oshana (Assyrian)
Özcan (Turkish)
Özdemir (Turkish)
Özgen (Turkish)
Özkan (Turkish)
Öztürk (Turkish)

P: 7 names

Pakzad (Persian)
Papazian (Armenian)
Parsa (Persian)
Peled (Hebrew)
Peretz (Hebrew)
Petrosyan (Armenian)
Polat (Turkish)

Q: 3 names

Qaradaghi (Kurdish)
Qawasmi (Arabic, Palestinian)
Qazvini (Persian)

R: 13 names

Raad (Arabic, Levant)
Rached (Arabic, Levant)
Rahal (Arabic, Lebanon)
Rahimi (Persian)
Rahimpour (Persian)
Rashti (Persian)
Rawashdeh (Arabic, Jordan)
Raz (Hebrew)
Regev (Hebrew)
Rekani (Kurdish)
Rezaei (Persian)
Rostami (Persian)
Rostamian (Persian)

S: 43 names

Saba (Arabic, Levant)
Sabbagh (Arabic, Levant)
Sabry (Arabic, Egypt)
Sabzevari (Persian)
Sadeghi (Persian)
Sahakian (Armenian)
Şahin (Turkish)
Salti (Arabic, Jordan)
Sarayreh (Arabic, Jordan)
Sarı (Turkish)
Sarıoğlu (Turkish)
Sarkissian (Armenian)
Sarraf (Arabic, Levant)
Sasson (Hebrew)
Sawaya (Arabic, Levant)
Sawwaf (Arabic, Syria)
Segal (Hebrew)
Şeker (Turkish)
Semnani (Persian)
Sepehri (Persian)
Sevim (Turkish)

S, continued

Sfeir (Arabic, Lebanon)
Shahbazi (Persian)
Shahriari (Persian)
Shaked (Hebrew)
Shalom (Hebrew)
Shami (Arabic, Syria)
Shawa (Arabic, Palestinian)
Shimoni (Hebrew)
Shingali (Kurdish)
Shirazi (Persian)
Shishegar (Persian)
Shoushtari (Persian)
Shwani (Kurdish)
Simonian (Armenian)
Şimşek (Turkish)
Sindi (Kurdish)
Sinno (Arabic, Lebanon)
Skaff (Arabic, Lebanon)
Sofer (Hebrew)
Sohrabi (Persian)
Srour (Arabic, Levant)
Surchi (Kurdish)

T: 19 names

Tabbara (Arabic, Lebanon)
Tabrizi (Persian)
Tafreshi (Persian)
Tal (Hebrew)
Tamimi (Arabic, Levant)
Tamir (Hebrew)
Tamraz (Assyrian)
Taş (Turkish)
Tashjian (Armenian)
Tavakoli (Persian)
Tehrani (Persian)
Tekin (Turkish)
Terzi (Turkish)
Terzian (Armenian)
Tokgöz (Turkish)
Topal (Turkish)
Turan (Turkish)
Tzadok (Hebrew)
Tzur (Hebrew)

U: 2 names

Uçar (Turkish)
Ünal (Turkish)

V: 3 names

Vardanyan (Armenian)
Vardi (Hebrew)
Vartanian (Armenian)

W: 2 names

Warda (Assyrian)
Wissa (Arabic, Egypt)

Y: 14 names

Yaakobi (Hebrew)
Yalçın (Turkish)
Yaldo (Assyrian)
Yavuz (Turkish)
Yazar (Turkish)
Yazdani (Persian)
Yerushalmi (Hebrew)
Yıldırım (Turkish)
Yıldız (Turkish)
Yılmaz (Turkish)
Yosef (Hebrew)
Youkhana (Assyrian)
Younan (Assyrian)
Yousif (Assyrian)

Z: 11 names

Zaarour (Arabic, Levant)
Zakarian (Armenian)
Zakka (Arabic, Levant)
Zamani (Persian)
Zangana (Kurdish)
Zanjani (Persian)
Zarei (Persian)
Zaya (Assyrian)
Zebari (Kurdish)
Zohar (Hebrew)
Zreikat (Arabic, Jordan)