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Most popular Persian names in official statistics
Iran, 2017
- Fatemeh 36,539
- Zahra 22,165
- Helma 14,995
- Zeinab 13,492
- Yasna 12,302
- Nazanin Zahra 11,931
- Ava 8,954
- Baran 8,870
- Reyhaneh 8,804
- Fatemeh Zahra 8,668
Source: National Organization for Civil Registration of Iran (Sazman-e Sabt-e Ahval-e Keshvar).
Featured in baby name books
Ariana
Ariana is given a Welsh meaning, “silver,” with spellings such as Arianna and Aryana. Ariana is also derived from the Greek Ariadne, meaning “most holy”; in myth Ariadne helped Theseus escape the labyrinth with a thread.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Azura
Azura is a French name meaning “blue” or “sky blue,” with variants such as Azure and Azzurra.
Sources: Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Daria
Daria is the feminine form of Darius and comes from Greek, meaning “wealthy” or “luxurious.” Daria is also read as “king” in Persian or “queenly.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, The Best Baby Names for Girls, Baby Names Made Easy, Numerology for Baby Names
Darina
Darina means “fruitful” and belonged to a daughter of High King Tuathal who married the king of Leinster, believing her sister Fithir dead; both sisters died of shame.
Sources: Irish Names for Children
Gelsey
Gelsey is an English surname used as a first name. Gelsey is also given the Persian meaning “flower.”
Sources: Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, 10,000 Baby Names
Jaleh
Jaleh is a Persian name connected to rain, glossed as “rain” or “born of the rain.” Jaleh also has an American meaning, “noble woman.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy
Jasmine
Jasmine is a Persian name taken from the fragrant climbing jasmine flower. Jasmine got a big boost from Princess Jasmine in Disney’s Aladdin in 1992, and Yasmin or Yasmeen offer a softer-sounding alternative.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
Kira
Kira is a Greek name meaning “lady,” while Carrington gives “lord.” Kira is also linked to light and the sun, from Latin, Russian, or Persian roots.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Numerology for Baby Names
Leila
Leila is an Arabic (or Persian) name meaning “night,” “dark as night,” or “dark beauty,” with many spellings like Layla and Lila.
Sources: Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, The Best Baby Names for Girls
Nadia
Nadia comes from Russian and means “hope.” Nadia is the French form of Nadya, which spread in France after the Ballets Russes; in Arabic-speaking countries it means “tender.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
Nasrin
Nasrin is a Persian name meaning “wild rose.” Nasrin is also given as Arabic for “rose,” with the variant Nasreen.
Sources: Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Nika
Nika is a name meaning “bringer of victory” or “the people’s victory.” Nika is also given as Russian for “belonging to God.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Numerology for Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy
Parvin
Parvin is a Hindu name meaning “star,” also spelled Parveen.
Sources: Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book
Roxanne
Roxanne is of Persian origin, most often meaning “dawn,” though it is also glossed as “brilliant” or “star.” The name spread west through Alexander the Great’s wife and later named the heroine of Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Book, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, Unusual Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time
Safa
Safa is an Arabic name meaning “purity” or “innocent.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy
Sara
Sara is a form of Sarah, Hebrew for “princess” or “of royal status,” with relatives like Sadie, Zara, and Sarita.
Sima
Sima is a Hebrew name meaning “treasure,” and Arabic for “prize.”
Sources: Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, 10,000 Baby Names
Soraya
Soraya is a Persian name meaning “princess,” and an Afghan name meaning “star.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy
Susan
Susan is a Hebrew name meaning “lily,” and it developed as a shorter form of Susannah, itself linked to the biblical Shoshana. Susan was hugely popular from the mid-1940s through the 1960s, but it has since fallen sharply and now shows up more often as a middle name.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, 1,107 Baby Names That Stand the Test of Time, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names, The Best Baby Names for Girls
Vashti
Vashti is a Persian name meaning “beautiful” or “pretty,” with Vashtee and Vashtie as variants. In the Book of Esther, Queen Vashti refused her husband King Ahasuerus’s drunken order to display her beauty before his guests, and the name has come to suggest self-respect.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, Classic Biblical Baby Names, The Everything Baby Names Book
Yasmin
Yasmin is a Persian and Arabic name meaning “jasmine flower,” also spelled Yasmeen or Yazmin.
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names (Laura Emerson), Numerology for Baby Names
Yasmine
Yasmine is a Persian or Arabic form of Jasmine, named for the jasmine flower. Yasmine first caught on in the U.S. in the 1920s thanks to James Flecker’s play Hassan, whose heroine was named Yasmin.
Sources: Baby Names Made Easy, Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls, The Everything Baby Names Book, Numerology for Baby Names
Zahra
Zahra is an Arabic name meaning “blossom” or “flowerlike,” with one book also giving “white-skinned”; Zahara and Zara are variants.
Sources: Baby Names Your Child Can Live With, The Best Baby Names for Girls
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These lists are only intended to give you name ideas. Make sure to further research each name, as some may have negative connotations.