Muslim Last Name Generator

Family names from across the Muslim world

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Find a Muslim last name among 500 family names carried across the Muslim world, from Khan, Siddiqui and Al-Sayed to Hosseini, Yılmaz, Hodžić, Nasution and Diallo.

About Muslim last names

There is no single Muslim surname tradition. Islam is practiced from Morocco to Indonesia, and family names follow the local language and custom, so this list is built by region rather than by one rule. About a third of it is Arabic: Al-Sayed, Haddad, Mansour, Al-Tamimi, Abdulrahman. Many Arabic names are nisbas that point to a place, a tribe or an ancestor, and the same roots travel far beyond the Arab world.

South Asia adds Khan, Siddiqui, Qureshi, Syed and Chaudhry. Iran adds Hosseini, Jafari and Tehrani, Turkey adds Yılmaz and Hacıoğlu, the Caucasus and Central Asia add Aliyev and Karimov, and Bosnia adds Hodžić and Imamović. West Africa brings Diallo, Touré and Abubakar, East Africa brings Warsame and Mwinyi, and Southeast Asia brings Nasution and Assegaf.

Two honest notes. A surname says nothing certain about a person's faith: Haddad, Khan and Malik are carried by people of several religions, and plenty of Muslims have names with no religious meaning at all. And not every Muslim culture hands down surnames. Somalis, many Malays and many Indonesians use a father's name instead, so for those regions the list gives the names people really carry in that position.

How to choose Muslim last names

  • Pick the region first. A character from Lahore, Sarajevo or Dakar needs a surname from that place, and a mismatch is the first thing a reader from there will notice.
  • Keep the spelling that goes with the region. Hussein, Hussain, Hossain, Hosseini and Huseynov share one root, but each belongs to a different part of the world.
  • Names built on Abdul, such as Abdulrahman or Abdul Qadir, are one unit that means servant of one of the names of God. Do not cut them down to Abdul alone in formal use.
  • For a Somali, Malay or Indonesian character, treat the last name as the father's given name. Siblings share it, but it will not match a grandfather's or a cousin's.
  • Do not use a surname to signal how religious a character is. Let the story do that work.

Frequently asked questions

What are some well-known Muslim last names?

It depends on the region. Khan, Hussain and Ahmad are widespread in South Asia, Al-Sayed, Mansour and Hassan in the Arab world, Hosseini and Ahmadi in Iran, Yılmaz and Kaya in Turkey, and Diallo and Touré in West Africa. All of them are in the list.

Does a last name show that someone is Muslim?

No. A surname says nothing certain about a person's faith. Many names here are shared with Christian, Hindu, Sikh or Jewish families of the same region, and people who convert usually keep the family name they were born with.

What does Al- mean in an Arabic surname?

Al- is the Arabic word for "the". In a surname it usually introduces a nisba, a word that ties the family to a place, a tribe or an ancestor: Al-Tamimi points to the Tamim tribe and Al-Yamani to Yemen. Some families write it El-, as in El-Sayed.

Do all Muslims have a family name?

No. A Somali name is a chain of the father's and grandfather's names, and many Malays and Indonesians use a patronymic or a single name. Turkey has required fixed surnames only since 1934, and Iran introduced them in the 1920s. The list gives what people in each region carry today.

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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: 78 names

  • Abbas
  • Abbasi
  • Abdel Fattah
  • Abdel Salam
  • Abdelkader
  • Abdelrahman
  • Abdi
  • Abdirahman
  • Abdul Hakim
  • Abdul Jabbar
  • Abdul Latif
  • Abdul Qadir
  • Abdul Rahim
  • Abdulaziz
  • Abdullaev
  • Abdullah
  • Abdullahi
  • Abdulrahman
  • Abidi
  • Abubakar
  • Adamu
  • Aden
  • Afridi
  • Ahmad
  • Ahmadi
  • Ahmadzai
  • Ahmed
  • Ahmeti
  • Ahmetović
  • Akanda
  • Akbar
  • Akbari
  • Akhmedov
  • Akhmetov
  • Aksoy
  • Al-Amin
  • Al-Ansari
  • Al-Attas
  • Al-Azhari

A, continued

  • Al-Bakri
  • Al-Farsi
  • Al-Faruqi
  • Al-Ghamdi
  • Al-Hashimi
  • Al-Husseini
  • Al-Khatib
  • Al-Mansouri
  • Al-Omari
  • Al-Otaibi
  • Al-Qahtani
  • Al-Qurashi
  • Al-Rashid
  • Al-Sayed
  • Al-Tamimi
  • Al-Yamani
  • Alam
  • Alaoui
  • Alatas
  • Alavi
  • Alaydrus
  • Alhabsyi
  • Ali
  • Alić
  • Aliyev
  • Aliyu
  • Alizadeh
  • Aljufri
  • Alvi
  • Amrani
  • Ansari
  • Arslan
  • Assegaf
  • Athumani
  • Avdić
  • Aydın
  • Ayoub
  • Azmi
  • Azzam

B: 32 names

  • Ba
  • Badawi
  • Bagheri
  • Baig
  • Bakar
  • Bakare
  • Bakari
  • Bakheit
  • Bakkali
  • Bakri
  • Bangura
  • Barakat
  • Barry
  • Bashir
  • Baswedan
  • Bawazier
  • Bayram
  • Bayramoğlu
  • Bećirović
  • Begović
  • Bello
  • Ben Ali
  • Ben Ibrahim
  • Ben Othman
  • Benaissa
  • Bennani
  • Bensaid
  • Bepari
  • Bhuiyan
  • Bilgrami
  • Boukhari
  • Bukhari

C: 13 names

  • Cader
  • Camara
  • Ceesay
  • Çelik
  • Çetin
  • Chaniago
  • Chaudhry
  • Cherif
  • Chishti
  • Choudhury
  • Chowdhury
  • Cissé
  • Coulibaly

D: 18 names

  • Danjuma
  • Daoud
  • Darwish
  • Daud
  • Daulay
  • Demir
  • Dervishi
  • Dervişoğlu
  • Dessouki
  • Dewan
  • Diab
  • Diallo
  • Didi
  • Diop
  • Dirie
  • Djebbar
  • Doğan
  • Džeko

E: 5 names

  • Ebrahimi
  • Efendić
  • El-Sayed
  • Elmi
  • Esmaeili

F: 9 names

  • Fakir
  • Farah
  • Farooqui
  • Farouk
  • Fassi
  • Fayed
  • Ferhat
  • Firmansyah
  • Fofana

G: 8 names

  • Gadzhiev
  • Garba
  • Gasim
  • Gazi
  • Ghasemi
  • Gilani
  • Guled
  • Güneş

H: 48 names

  • Hacıoğlu
  • Haddad
  • Hadji
  • Hadžić
  • Hafez
  • Hafızoğlu
  • Haidar
  • Haidara
  • Hakim
  • Halabi
  • Halilović
  • Hamad
  • Hamdan
  • Hamdi
  • Hamid
  • Hamidi
  • Hamisi
  • Haque
  • Harahap
  • Harun
  • Haruna
  • Hasan
  • Hasani
  • Hasanov
  • Hasanović
  • Hasanuddin
  • Hashemi
  • Hashim
  • Hashmi
  • Hasibuan
  • Hassan
  • Hassanzadeh
  • Hatipoğlu
  • Heidari
  • Hersi
  • Hidayat
  • Hijazi
  • Hocaoğlu
  • Hodžić
  • Hossain
  • Hosseini
  • Hosseinzadeh
  • Howlader
  • Hoxha
  • Huseynov
  • Hussain
  • Hussein
  • Husseini

I: 11 names

  • Ibragimov
  • Ibrahim
  • Ibrahimović
  • Idris
  • Idrissi
  • Imamović
  • Isfahani
  • Islam
  • Ismail
  • Ismailov
  • Issa

J: 9 names

  • Jaafar
  • Jaber
  • Jafari
  • Jallow
  • Jama
  • Jamal
  • Jemal
  • Jilani
  • Juma

K: 32 names

  • Kabir
  • Kadić
  • Kadıoğlu
  • Kahraman
  • Kamal
  • Kamara
  • Kanté
  • Karimi
  • Karimov
  • Kassem
  • Kassim
  • Kaya
  • Kazemi
  • Kazi
  • Kedir
  • Keita
  • Khabibullin
  • Khaldi
  • Khalid
  • Khalifa
  • Khalil
  • Khamis
  • Khan
  • Khandaker
  • Khattak
  • Kidwai
  • Kılıç
  • Koç
  • Koné
  • Koto
  • Koya
  • Kurtović

L: 6 names

  • Labbai
  • Laskar
  • Latiff
  • Lawal
  • Lebbe
  • Lubis

M: 54 names

  • Ma
  • Mabrouk
  • Madani
  • Maghrabi
  • Magomedov
  • Mahdavi
  • Mahdi
  • Mahgoub
  • Mahmoud
  • Majid
  • Makkawi
  • Makki
  • Malek
  • Malik
  • Mammadov
  • Mannan
  • Mansor
  • Mansour
  • Mansuri
  • Marikkar
  • Masri
  • Matin
  • Matondang
  • Mazrui
  • Mbacké
  • Mehmedović
  • Memon
  • Meziane
  • Miah
  • Mir
  • Mirghani
  • Mirza
  • Mohamed
  • Mohammadi
  • Mohammed
  • Mohamud
  • Mohideen
  • Mokhtar
  • Mokhtari
  • Mollah
  • Mollaoğlu
  • Momin
  • Mondal
  • Mousavi
  • Mridha
  • Mufti
  • Müftüoğlu
  • Mughal
  • Mujić
  • Munshi
  • Musa
  • Mustafa
  • Mustafić
  • Mwinyi

N: 15 names

  • Naderi
  • Nadvi
  • Najafi
  • Najjar
  • Naqvi
  • Nasr
  • Nasser
  • Nasution
  • Ndiaye
  • Nigmatullin
  • Noor
  • Noorzai
  • Nordin
  • Nouri
  • Nur

O: 12 names

  • Okasha
  • Omar
  • Omari
  • Omerović
  • Oruç
  • Osman
  • Osmani
  • Osmanović
  • Othman
  • Ouali
  • Özkan
  • Öztürk

P: 6 names

  • Pathan
  • Patwari
  • Piliang
  • Polat
  • Pramanik
  • Pulungan

Q: 7 names

  • Qadri
  • Qandil
  • Qasim
  • Qasmi
  • Qazi
  • Qazilbash
  • Qureshi

R: 23 names

  • Rabbani
  • Radwan
  • Rahimi
  • Rahman
  • Raji
  • Rakhimov
  • Ramadan
  • Ramadani
  • Ramadhani
  • Ramazan
  • Ramazanoğlu
  • Ramli
  • Rangkuti
  • Rashid
  • Rashidov
  • Razak
  • Razavi
  • Razzaq
  • Rexhepi
  • Rezaei
  • Rifai
  • Rizvi
  • Rowther

S: 59 names

  • Saad
  • Saadi
  • Sadeghi
  • Safavi
  • Safin
  • Şahin
  • Said
  • Saidi
  • Salama
  • Salami
  • Saleh
  • Salehi
  • Salem
  • Salihović
  • Salleh
  • Samad
  • Samatar
  • Sanusi
  • Sattar
  • Seid
  • Selimović
  • Sesay
  • Shaaban
  • Shafei
  • Shah
  • Shaheen
  • Shaikh
  • Shalabi
  • Shami
  • Sharaf
  • Sharif
  • Shariff
  • Sharifi
  • Shawqi
  • Shehu
  • Sheikh
  • Sherwani
  • Shihab
  • Shirazi
  • Shire
  • Shuaibu
  • Siddique
  • Siddiqui
  • Sidibé
  • Sikder
  • Sikumbang
  • Siregar
  • Slimani
  • Sofuoğlu
  • Sow
  • Spahić
  • Sulaiman
  • Suleiman
  • Suleimenov
  • Sulejmanović
  • Sy
  • Syahputra
  • Syed
  • Sylla

T: 22 names

  • Tabatabaei
  • Tabrizi
  • Taha
  • Taher
  • Taheri
  • Tahtawi
  • Talib
  • Tall
  • Talukdar
  • Tanjung
  • Tanko
  • Tantawi
  • Tawfiq
  • Tazi
  • Tehrani
  • Thangal
  • Tijani
  • Tolba
  • Touré
  • Trabelsi
  • Traoré
  • Turan

U: 5 names

  • Uddin
  • Umar
  • Umarov
  • Usman
  • Usmani

W: 4 names

  • Wahab
  • Wardak
  • Warsame
  • Waziri

Y: 16 names

  • Yaakob
  • Yahaya
  • Yahiaoui
  • Yakubu
  • Yassin
  • Yavuz
  • Yazdi
  • Yıldız
  • Yılmaz
  • Younes
  • Yousafzai
  • Yousef
  • Yousefi
  • Yusof
  • Yusuf
  • Yusupov

Z: 8 names

  • Zahran
  • Zaidi
  • Zein
  • Zia
  • Zidan
  • Zitouni
  • Zulkarnain
  • Zulkifli