Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic khalil
‘friend’. Khalil-ullah ‘friend of Allah’ is an honorific
title given to the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham). See the Qur’an 4:125:
‘Allah took Abraham as his friend.’
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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