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Barsoum Surname Meaning

Coptic (Egypt) and Assyrian/Chaldean: from the personal name Barṣūm from Aramaic bar ‘son’ + ṣūm ‘fasting’ thence meaning ‘son of fasting’.

Barṣūm was the name of a 13th-century Coptic saint.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022


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