Persian Girl Names

Persian-rooted names connect with a literary and linguistic tradition shared across several countries. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

2,277#119
Up 29 rank positions in five years
1918

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1906.

1,481#206
Down 66 rank positions in five years
1993

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1906.

170#1,315
Down 190 rank positions in five years
1954

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1951.

155#1,409
Down 238 rank positions in five years
2006

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1962.

395#710
Down 72 rank positions in five years
2006

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1938.

801#385
Steady
2005

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1971.

255#993
Down 217 rank positions in five years
2006

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1963.

219#1,097
Down 101 rank positions in five years
2007

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

5#15,766
new
1918

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1880.

60#2,856
Down 265 rank positions in five years
1988

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1882.

77#2,366
Down 529 rank positions in five years
1991

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1961.

387#723
Up 205 rank positions in five years
2025

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1955.

313#868
Up 318 rank positions in five years
2025

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1994.

160#1,378
Up 124 rank positions in five years
2008

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1882.

12#8,821
Up 3,244 rank positions in five years
1922

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1923.

10#10,002
Up 157 rank positions in five years
1991

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1938.

15#7,441
Up 2,719 rank positions in five years
1985

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1987.

—Unranked
—
2008

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1974.

9#10,321
Down 2,229 rank positions in five years
2019

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1979.

17#6,754
Down 201 rank positions in five years
2024

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1991.

6#13,757
Up 248 rank positions in five years
2017

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1990.

—Unranked
—
2019

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1949.

—Unranked
—
1968

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1967.

—Unranked
—
1970

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1989.

—Unranked
—
2000

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1948.

—Unranked
—
1968

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1997.

—Unranked
—
2024

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1955.

—Unranked
—
1955

Persian-rooted name; in U.S. records from 1992.

—Unranked
—
1992

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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