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Surnames of Bengali language origin. Pages in category "Bengali Muslim surnames" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
Bangladeshi Muslim names (12 P) Pages in category "Bengali-language surnames" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
The surname "Sheikh" is prevalent in the Bengali Muslim community. It is from the Arabic word " Sheikh " ( Arabic : شيخ shaykh [ʃajx] ), meaning elder, this word is also applied to those who are in a position of respect such as a leader, especially a religious leader or preacher.
Bengali Muslim families mostly use names of Arabic origin, followed by Farsi and Bengali. Among Muslims of Bangladesh, there are several different naming conventions. There is no fixed scheme for the structure of names. [1] Many people do not really use a family name, so members of a family can have different last names.
Bengali Muslims constitute the world's second-largest Muslim ethnicity (after the Arab world) and the largest Muslim community in South Asia. [112] An estimated 152 million Bengali Muslims live in Bangladesh as of 2021, where Islam is the state religion and commands the demographic majority. [ 113 ]
Majumdar (Bengali: মজুমদার) is a native Bengali surname that is used by both the Bengali Hindu and Bengali Muslim community of Indian states of West Bengal, Assam and as well as of Bangladesh. [2]
The Bengali surname comes from the Old Persian Khandan (Persian: خواندن, romanized: Xwândan, lit. 'To read') and the suffix kar (Persian: گار, romanized: Gâr) which joins the root of the verb to mean the one who reads. The Bengali definition of the word is an instructor or teacher.
Mallik (Bengali: মল্লিক) also known as Mallick or Mullick. The surname is found among the Bengali Hindus like Bengali Kayastha, Namasudra, Bagdi, Tili, Suvarna Baniks, Baidyas, and others as well as the Bengali Muslim community of India and Bangladesh. [1]