What is the ethnic origin of the name Attar?

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Attar - can represent many ethnic origins from Eurasia (Turkey, Syria) to further east (Iran) since the name actually means the profession of an "alchemist" common at the time of the Muslim empire that spanned large areas of land.
In the middle east, people with the last name Attar can be Muslim, Jewish or christian as all these religious communities could have ancestors that worked this profession.
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