Entry № 9456 · Persian origin

Shaghayegh Shaghayegh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shah-gah-YEHG /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Poppy (Persian)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "poppy (persian)".

Shaghayegh (شقایق) is the Persian word for the red poppy (Papaver) — the wildflower that carpets Iranian fields each spring.

Used widely in modern Iran.

Poppy. The Persian wildflower.

The name in its native script.

شقایق
Transliteration
Šaqāyeq
Pronunciation
/ ʃəɡəˈjɛɡ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shaghayegh stands.

Shaghayegh 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.

Shaghayeghs before her.

Real people
Shaghayegh Farahani
Iranian actress.
born 1979
In fiction
Shaghayegh
Common in Persian poetry.

Names connected to Shaghayegh.

The number behind Shaghayegh.

8

The Visionary

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