Najjar Family History
Najjar Name Meaning
Arabic and Jewish (Sephardic): occupational name from Arabic najjār ‘carpenter’. Its Arabic bearers are both Muslims and Christians. This form of the surname is also found among Assyrians/Chaldeans (see Najar 3 and Najor ). Compare Alnajjar and Najar Iranian: cognate of 1 above from Persian najjār ‘carpenter’ a word of Arabic origin. Compare Najar
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022