Entry № 7229 · Persian origin

Nargis Nargis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAR-giss /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Daffodil / narcissus (Nargis, 1957 Mother India)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "daffodil / narcissus (nargis, 1957 mother india)".

Nargis (نرگس) is the Persian and Urdu word for the narcissus / daffodil flower — from the Greek narkissos. Nargis Fakhri — American-Pakistani Bollywood actress.

Daffodil / narcissus (Nargis, 1957 Mother India) — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

نرگس
Transliteration
Narges
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɑːr.ɡɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nargis stands.

Nargis 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.

Nargiss before her.

Real people
Nargis Dutt
Indian Bollywood star.
1929 – 1981
Nargis Fakhri
American-Pakistani actress.
born 1979
In fiction
Radha
Mother India.
1957

Names connected to Nargis.

The number behind Nargis.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nargis reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.