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assad Name Meaning and History

  1. from an Arabic personal name, As?ad ‘happiest’, ‘luckiest’, a superlative adjective derived from sa?ida ‘to be lucky or happy’. Compare Said.
  2. nickname or ornamental name from Arabic asad ‘lion’. This was adopted as a surname by ?Hafe?z al-Assad (1928–2000), president of Syria from 1971 until his death.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The assad name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the assad family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of assad Families in the US in 1920
Number of assad families
 16-30
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 6 - Messages: 32
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Relatives from Amar Syria jjkaul 22
JERRY ASSAD brkphillips 3
TO MY DAUGHTER DANCINJERRYG 0
Uncle Oscar JKaul2233 0
assad Kmcpherson32 1
Assad Mahmud Tracy 0
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