The darwish Surname

darwish Name Meaning and History

Muslim: status name for a Sufi holy man, from Persian and Turkish dervi{s,} ‘dervish’, a member of a Sufi Muslim religious order, from Pahlavi driyosh meaning ‘beggar’, ‘one who goes from door to door’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of darwish Families in the US in 1920

Number of darwish families

3-4

2-2

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Darwish Family	Yasmine Darwish	4
Palestinian Darwish	Yousef Darwish	1
darwish root	abdulfattah darwish	0
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Looking for Darwish's originally from Iraq	David	1

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