Talk:Jawed

I figured out the etymology, but I cannot yet explain the emergence as both a given name and a surname in Pakistan. Perhaps the origin is "Javid Iqbal (judge) (Sr.) HI, (born 1924), son of the poet-philosopher Sir Muhammad Iqbal", it would stand to reason that a "poet-philosopher" would be free to pick unconventional names, and the time is about right for it catching on from about 1940 or so? This is speculation. There is also the case of Javed Khan Nawab Bahadur, but I have no way of knowing if "Javed" is a regular given name here, or some type of title or honorific, or what. As for the surname, there is Hamid Javaid, born 1947. It is my understanding that Pakistani surnames are mostly clan names. "Javaid" is clearly not a clan name. But the father of Hamid Javaid seems to be Chaudry Mohammad Ashraf, so apparently "Javaid" isn't a real surname but rather some kind of pseudonym. So it seems the "Pakistani surname" also appears in about the 1940s.

If this is right, then there remains the case of "Huseyn Javid (1882–1941)" (a pseudonym chosen independently), and the apparent existence of the surname in Iran (Behrouz Javid-Tehrani). But I doubt this is really an Iranian surname. Google gives me almost nothing. "Behrouz Javid-Tehrani" might also be some kind of pseudonym. And there is this guy who complains about his parents giving him the "absurd, pompous" name of "Jahanshah Javid". I am not sure if we are to understand his family name is Javid and his parents sort of punned on that, or if the full name "Jahanshah Javid" was given by his parents. More research is needed, surely.

Javed Mohammed of Trinidad, b. 1989, may be an indication that (presumably via the vast Pakistani expat community) the name is now in the process of becoming a generically "Muslim name". --dab (𒁳) 11:35, 11 August 2013 (UTC)