Is the last name Sadiq jewish?

Question:I know it has muslim roots but my ancestry is christian (beside the idol worshippers)

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I know it has muslim roots but my ancestry is christian (beside the idol worshippers)

I can tell you this: The name has it's roots in the early semitic languages that pre-date both the Hebrew and Arabic languages that we have at present. A previous answerer is quite correct in its meaning from the Koran as "righteous one". In the early Hebrew it means precisely the same thing. In the Bible it's spelled "Zadek" and also translates literally as "righteous one" as in "Melchizadek" and "Adonizadek". So "Sadiq"/"Zadek" is a term that originates in the very early Canaanite dialects. Neither Hebrew nor Arabic can claim this term as being specifically theirs. It's older than both of them.

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,
Sadiq
Muslim: from either of two Arabic personal names, based on ?sadiq ‘friend’, ‘companion’ (see the Qur’an 26:101) or ?siddiq ‘righteous’, ‘upright’ (see the Qur’an 19:54).
hope this helps.

I don't think you can characterize a surname according to a religion. I'm sure that there have been Jewish people named Sadiq and non-Jewish people named Sadiq -- people have changed their religions throughout the centuries. You would have research your specific ancestry to see whether YOUR Sadiqs were Jewish or not.

No it's arabic

Sadiq means friend in arabic.
It doesn't mean anything in Jewish.

Hi Joel,

You've brought up a really great question and one that isn't getting a good answer.

In the Middle East, which is where the name developed, the use of "surnames" is a very new concept...in most parts it's barely 100 years old. It isn't true just of the Muslims in the region, but also for the Jews, Orthodox and other Christians in the region, such as Maronites. If someone adopted that as their surname, it's because it meant something to them, regardless of religion. When you get into the Syria->Egypt strip, it's very common for a "name" to be both Islamic and Christian in the same village. The same is true with many of the Jewish families in the area who aren't Sephardic and who predate WWII in the area.

It would not be unreasonable for anyone in the Middle East to adopt that name...especially if their family predates the modern tensions in the region...regardless of religion.

like you just said it has muslim roots. probably not jewish but it would descend from abraham, to whom the jewish people also descend.

I don't think it has a religious twist to it

The word "Tzadik" is hebrew for "righteous person" and that is similar to Sadiq. I do not know of anyone Jewish with that last name though. If there are, they would likely be Sephardic.

It must be Arabic.
I also knew someone with this last name in Iran so it can be Persian too.