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Nizam Surname Meaning

From a male given name derived from nizām ‘order discipline; ruler’; most familiar in Britain as the title of the pre-Independence aristocratic ruler of Hyderabad India.

Source: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021


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