Jabbar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَبَّار (jabbār, “mighty, powerful”). This surname is mostly found in Iraq.

Proper noun

Jabbar (plural Jabbars)

1. A surname from Arabic.
   • 2025 January 1, Tom Winter, Julia Ainsley, Ken Dilanian, Alicia Victoria Lozano and Rich Schapiro, “The driver in the New Orleans attack was an Army veteran from Texas”, in NBC News‎^[1]:

     The carnage unfolded when Jabbar drove onto a sidewalk, bypassing a police vehicle that had been parked to block cars from pedestrians celebrating on crowded Bourbon Street, officials told reporters Wednesday afternoon.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Jabbar is the 24466^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1023 individuals. Jabbar is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (36.27%), White (34.51%), and Black/African American (20.14%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Jabbar”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 237.