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 name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak 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.
