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List of Pakistani family names

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The following are some of the tribal names in Pakistan.

Naming system

Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.

Islamic / Indo-European

Baloch tribal names

Brahui tribal names

Gujarati clan names

Kashmiri clan names

Punjabi clan names

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Sindhi clan names

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Saraiki tribal names

Pashtun tribal names

Iranian ancestral names

Arabic ancestral names

These surnames are mostly common among Urdu-speaking people and Shia Muslims.

Turkic ancestral names

References

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