Given name & surname
Ansari
“helpers, supporters”
Ansari is a surname from Arabic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ansari goes back to Arabic أَنْصَارِيّ, meaning “helpers, supporters.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Arabic أَنْصَارِيّ; its root is Arabic ن ص ر.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ansari’s family of names
In Greek usage, Ansari as a surname is a transliteration of Ανσαρί. In English usage, Ansari as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Urdu form انصاری.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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