Entry № 1178 · Persian origin

Azadeh Azadeh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-zah-DEH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Free, noble (Shahnameh)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "free, noble (shahnameh)".

Azadeh (آزاده) is Persian for "free" or "noble." In Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Azadeh is the beautiful slave-musician of Bahram Gur.

Azadeh Moaveni (born 1976) is the Iranian-American journalist.

Free, noble. The Shahnameh heroine.

The name in its native script.

آزاده
Transliteration
Āzāde
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑː.zəˈdɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Azadeh stands.

Azadeh does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Azadehs before her.

Real people
Azadeh Moaveni
Iranian-American journalist.
born 1976
In fiction
Azadeh
Slave-musician in Shahnameh.
Ferdowsi, c. 1010

Names connected to Azadeh.

The number behind Azadeh.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Azadeh reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.