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| popplace = [[Punjab]], [[Sindh]], [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]], [[Isfahan Province]]<br />
| langs = [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Hindi]], [[Urdu]]<br />
| rels = [[Hinduism]], [[Sikhism]] and [[Islam]]<br />
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'''Hunjan''' is a surname found among [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] [[Rajput]] and [[Mohyal Brahmins]] originating from [[Hunejan]], Iran and who settled in the [[Salt Range]] and [[Majha]] regions of Punjab.<ref>{{cite book |author=K. S. Singh |title=Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfAMAQAAMAAJ |year=1996 |publisher=Anthropological Survey of India |isbn=978-0-19-563357-3 |page=1173 }}</ref><br />
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Migrants, traders, merchants and nomadic tribes, coming from [[Hunejan]], Iran to the Punjab region assimilated into the [[Khokhar]] and [[Mohyal]] communities during [[medieval India]].<ref>{{cite book |author=K. S. Singh |title=Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfAMAQAAMAAJ |year=1996 |publisher=Anthropological Survey of India |isbn=978-0-19-563357-3 |page=1174 }}</ref> This led to the migrants adopting new beliefs; however, they retained their surnames - coming from the migrants' ancestral village in Iran. Modern day descendants can trace their origin to Iranian and Indo-Aryan roots.<br />
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==Notable people with the surname==<br />
[[Amrita Hunjan]], model and singer<br />
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