Haddad or Forgeron,Herrero,Smith (Semitic: "blacksmith") is a common family name and personal name. Hadad was also a Semitic storm-god.
The original Haddad (Aramaicܚܕܕ or ܚܕܐܕ ) name means Blacksmith in ancient Semitic. The Haddad name dates back to the Phoenician era of the Eastern Mediterranean. People who have the last name of Haddad are often Christian whereas among Tunisians they tend to be Jewish. Haddad is the most commonly used Christian surname in the Mediterranean and Eurasian World. Though a big amount of the Haddad clan died in the Levant. The Haddad Christians live in Lebanon, Spain,Brazil,France,Italy, Israel/Palestine, Egypt and Turkey, (Southeastern Europe). In the Aramaic-Turoyo dialect they are also known as "Hadodo ܚܕܕܐ" - but after the prohibition of the use of non-Turkish names 1934 they took Turkish names.Although origins of the lastname vary due to migration from one place to another, there is a variety of origin and not all of the name carriers share the same orgin and blood line. There are many family trees of diffrent clans that share the name although none are biolgicaly related or confirmed to be from the same place. As a proven fact most Arab Christians were wiped out in the Levant or they converted to Islam which concludes to the statement that the last name was adopted as the only surviving Christians were the Assyrians which where located in northern Iraq and Syria and the Phoenicians which lived on southeastern of the Mediterranean, the rest escaped or died due to the uprising of Islam which forced them to either convert or pay taxes or death as a punishment to the inability to do so. Haddad is the most common surname in Lebanon (Phoenicia), with about 2.42% or 96,800 people having the surname in Lebanon alone.