Entry № 9460 · Persian origin

Shaheen Shaheen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shah-HEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Royal falcon (iconic Iqbal poetry)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "royal falcon (iconic iqbal poetry)".

Shaheen is from the Persian shāhīn (شاهین — royal falcon, the iconic peregrine falcon). Princess Shaheen — modern Persian-Urdu heritage naming.

Royal falcon (Persian-Urdu).

The name in its native script.

شاہین
Transliteration
Shāhīn
Pronunciation
/ ʃəˈhiːn /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Shaheen stands.

Shaheen 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.

Shaheens before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Shaheen (Iqbal)
Iconic Iqbal poetry symbol.
1935

Names connected to Shaheen.

The number behind Shaheen.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shaheen reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.