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Sherwani Surname Meaning

A suffixed name indicating descent from someone from Sherwan, Abbottabad district in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, perhaps sometimes from the Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali word sherwani denoting a frock-coat adopted by aristocratic men in the 19th century.

However, the word appears to derive from the place-name in (i), which is perhaps therefore responsible for all instances of this surname.

Source: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021


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