FARAJ Origin of surname
FARAJ, FARADJ, FARJON, FARJEON, BEN FARAJ, BEN FARADJ, FARAJ, FARRAIG, FARAIG, FARACH
Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name derives from a personal characteristic or nickname.
This name is derived from the Arabic meaning "joy after sadness".
During the Middle Ages, many Jewish and Muslim sages and poets bore the Kunya (honorific name) Abu-Al-Faraj. The name Faraj belongs to the category of 'fortune and remedy' ('apotropaisms'), a means of warding off evil spirits and danger. Such names were given to infants whose siblings had died, whose parents died leaving the infants as orphans, or who themselves were seriously ill. The most effective 'treatment' was to give the child a name meaning "life". The Hebrew Ben means "son of". In the Middle Ages, Abu al-Faraj was a title attributed to many poets and scholars, both Arabs and Jews. In medieval Spanish documents, other variants of the surname Faraj are recorded, such as Farach, Farag, Aben Farax, Farraig, Faraig, Aben Farraig. Other related family names include Farjon, Ben Farjon, Ben Farhon. The variety of spellings is a result of the transfer between old Spanish, Modern Spanish, and Arabic, in which the consonants "x", "j", and "h" are interchangable. The name (and variants) is recorded as a Jewish family name in the following cases: in 1286, Muca Abenfarraig (a Catalan spelling variant of Ben Farraig) was put on trial in Majorca in 1286 and his property was returned to him after having been confiscated; Cag and Yago Farach of Medina de Pomar, Spain, are mentioned in a selling document dated October 2, 1330; In a census dated 1367 Gento and Yuce Farach were registered as house-owners in Pamplona, Spain; On second March 1424 Joseph Faraig, a merchant from Murcia, Spain, is mentioned in a document dated March 2, 1424, allowing him to trade in Valencia, Spain; Abraham Faraj from Oran, Algeria is mentioned in a list of contributors, in 'Sefer Zevahim Shelemim' by Abraham Anqawa (1837).
Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name derives from a personal characteristic or nickname.
This name is derived from the Arabic meaning "joy after sadness".
During the Middle Ages, many Jewish and Muslim sages and poets bore the Kunya (honorific name) Abu-Al-Faraj. The name Faraj belongs to the category of 'fortune and remedy' ('apotropaisms'), a means of warding off evil spirits and danger. Such names were given to infants whose siblings had died, whose parents died leaving the infants as orphans, or who themselves were seriously ill. The most effective 'treatment' was to give the child a name meaning "life". The Hebrew Ben means "son of". In the Middle Ages, Abu al-Faraj was a title attributed to many poets and scholars, both Arabs and Jews. In medieval Spanish documents, other variants of the surname Faraj are recorded, such as Farach, Farag, Aben Farax, Farraig, Faraig, Aben Farraig. Other related family names include Farjon, Ben Farjon, Ben Farhon. The variety of spellings is a result of the transfer between old Spanish, Modern Spanish, and Arabic, in which the consonants "x", "j", and "h" are interchangable. The name (and variants) is recorded as a Jewish family name in the following cases: in 1286, Muca Abenfarraig (a Catalan spelling variant of Ben Farraig) was put on trial in Majorca in 1286 and his property was returned to him after having been confiscated; Cag and Yago Farach of Medina de Pomar, Spain, are mentioned in a selling document dated October 2, 1330; In a census dated 1367 Gento and Yuce Farach were registered as house-owners in Pamplona, Spain; On second March 1424 Joseph Faraig, a merchant from Murcia, Spain, is mentioned in a document dated March 2, 1424, allowing him to trade in Valencia, Spain; Abraham Faraj from Oran, Algeria is mentioned in a list of contributors, in 'Sefer Zevahim Shelemim' by Abraham Anqawa (1837).