Bearing the surname often indicates that the family adopted the name Nasrallah from one of its patrilineal ancestors.
Notable people with the name Nasrallah and its variants include: In Iraq, the most notable family to carry the name is the Alid Faizid family of Nasrallah from Karbala.
However, there are other Alid and non-Alid families that carry the name, that come from Hindiyah, Hillah, and Nasiriyah.
They trace back to the Anazzah tribe, and migrated from Sudair.
In Palestine, it is believed that the Nasrallah family traces back to either the one that originated in the Levant (North Syria and Rif-Dimashq), or in the Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia and Yemen).