Nahhas
family name
Nahhas (Arabic: نَّحّاس, romanized: Naḥḥās, lit. 'coppersmith'), is an Arabic surname. It is also rendered Nahas and sometimes preceded by the definite article al, el, an, or en with or without a hyphen or a space.
Surname
Abu Jaʿfar an-Nahhas (874–949), Egyptian Islamic scholar
Ibn al-Nahhas al-Dimashqi al-Dumyati (died 1411), Islamic scholar and soldier
Maryam al-Nahhas (1859–1888), Lebanese-Egyptian activist
Mostafa el-Nahas (1879–1965), Egyptian political figure
A. S. Nahas (1895–1970), founder of the Nahas chain of department stores
Gabriel G. Nahas (1920–2012), American anesthesiologist
Sayed El-Nahas (1939–1994), Egyptian boxer
Nicolas Nahas (born 1946), Lebanese politician
Nabil Nahas (born 1949), Lebanese artist
Charbel Nahas (born 1954), Lebanese economist and politician
Damon Nahas (born 1974), American soccer coach
Emad El Nahhas (born 1976), Egyptian footballer and coach
Sean Nahas (born 1978), American soccer coach
Robin Nahas (born 1987), Australian rules footballer
Marie-Lou Nahhas (born 1989), Lebanese-American actress, model, and activist
Rasha Nahas (born 1996), Palestinian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Shady Elnahas (born 1998), Canadian judoka
Given name
The given name appears to be unrelated to the Arabic word.
“Nahhas” enters the record as family name. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nahhas, family and name can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Nahhas” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nahhas, family and name provides the most credible route into that argument.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6959248. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1411, 1859, 1888 and 1879.
Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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