Talk:Haddad

Exact meaning?

I'm quite sure the exact meaning of Haddad is Blacksmith as apposed to the more general 'Smith'.

were the haddads hartland and which religion they had before christian orthodox

was the haddads originally before christianity originated from the syrian plain in particular palestine and israel

Well, Canaanite, so they descend from Phoenicians 89.133.155.74 (talk) 21:16, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Arabic grandchild of Aramaic and Hebrew

Arabic is not the 'grandchild of Aramaic and Hebrew'. Arabic and Hebrew are both grand children of Aramaic. Also, in that sentence Hebrew has no context or is out of place as the sentence is talking about Arabic, so I removed it -- xushi

Haddad comes from arabic word Hadid meaning sharp and called iron too because with iron were made sharp weapons like swords, so if hadid is iron therefore Haddad is who work with iron or blacksmith — Preceding unsigned comment added by Haddad70 (talk • contribs) 20:57, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Edit is clearly anti jewish and deletes any reference to this last name being Aramaic origin.

This edit is clearly anti aramaic/jewish and deletes any reference to this last name being Aramaic origin. This deletion is considered Palestinian anti jewish propaganda.

All jewish/aramaic references for the haddad page were deleted in effort to hide the aramaic origin of the last name. These changes were made after the hamas terrorist attacks and can be seen as palestinian propaganda. The page needs to be reverted to include the aramaic origin with its valid sources. There was no reason for this besides palestinian propaganda which may even be terrorist misinformation propaganda. Ahaddad91 (talk) 20:15, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Merge proposal with Hadodo

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was merge; at the very least, there's no major opposition to the idea of a merge following a single user comment, so this is probably an uncontroversial move. Surayeproject3 (talk) 13:25, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

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The merge proposal...

Proposing a merge from Hadodo. As far as I'm aware, there are no current entries on Wikipedia for people who have the last name "Hadodo", which calls into question the need for a separate disambiguation. A comment on the respective article's talk page basically summarizes what merging the article would look like, and I think would make it much more condensed overall. Surayeproject3 (talk) 02:03, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

• and discussion...

But are they not different names? Haddad is a set index page, not a DAB, and surnames often have their own articles, some of which includes lists and others don't, but describe the origins and meanings of the name. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 03:38, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Having recently edited a number of set index pages of surnames, all of them included a list with entries on Wikipedia that had the same name, and I haven't found one that doesn't yet (apologies if I used "disambiguation" for the wrong context). Both names also mean the same word, "Blacksmith", and are listed as variants of each other, and an online dictionary of Assyrian/Aramaic also indicates this . Based on this I would argue they're the same name. Surayeproject3 (talk) 03:48, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Reconsideration of merge with Hadodo

I would like to request reconsideration of the previous merge of Hadodo into Haddad.

The earlier merge discussion appears to have had very limited participation and no clear consensus regarding the linguistic distinction between the names. In fact, the only other editor who commented, @Laterthanyouthink:, explicitly raised the question of whether they are different names, which was not fully addressed before the merge was closed. In fact they are different names.

Additionally, the claim that "Hadodo" is simply a variant of "Haddad" appears to have been supported only by a general reference to an unspecified online Assyrian/Aramaic dictionary, without a clearly verifiable or reliable linguistic source. Shared meaning alone ("blacksmith") does not necessarily make them the same surname across different languages.

"Hadodo" is the Assyrian/Aramaic form of a surname, while "Haddad" is the Arabic form. Although both derive from the same Semitic root, they represent distinct linguistic forms in different languages and cultural traditions. Classifying Hadodo as an Arabic surname would therefore be linguistically and historically inaccurate. This is comparable to surnames such as "Smith" and "Schmidt," which share the same origin and meaning but are treated as separate surnames.

For these reasons, it would be appropriate to reconsider the previous merge and evaluate whether Hadodo should be restored as a separate surname entry. Given its distinct linguistic, historical, and cultural background within the Assyrian/Aramaic context, restoring Hadodo as its own article would more accurately reflect its independent usage rather than treating it as part of the Arabic surname Haddad.

--Anonymous17 (talk) 12:36, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello there. I have just posted a request for editors from WikiProject Anthroponymy to offer an opinion here, as I don't know enough about it and am rather busy with other things just at the moment. Hopefully will have a better discussion and come to a consensus decision here. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 05:56, 15 February 2026 (UTC)