Bandar

Origin

*Bandar* is Persian for a harbour or port. It entered Arabic through centuries of Gulf and Indian Ocean trade and is found across the region in place names — Bandar Abbas, Bandar Lengeh.

As a name

It became a given name in the Peninsula, especially in Najd, and is now thoroughly naturalised: an Arabic name by use, whatever its origin.

Note

Its foreign origin is unremarkable. Arabic has always taken in words through trade, and a name's history is not a claim about the family that bears it.