Entry № 5448 · Arabic origin

Khayzuran Khayzuran — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAY-zoo-rahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Bamboo (Abbasid Empress)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "bamboo (abbasid empress)".

Khayzuran (خيزران) is the Arabic word for "bamboo" — for its slender grace. Khayzuran (c.

She was perhaps the most powerful woman of the early Abbasid era.

Bamboo. The Abbasid empress-mother.

The name in its native script.

خيزران
Transliteration
Khayzurān
Pronunciation
/ ˈxaɪ.zuː.rɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Khayzuran stands.

Khayzuran 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.

Khayzurans before her.

Real people
Khayzuran
Abbasid empress-mother.
c. 740 – 789
In fiction
Khayzuran
Common in Abbasid historical fiction.

Names connected to Khayzuran.

The number behind Khayzuran.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Khayzuran reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.