Entry № 9465 · Persian origin

Shahrazad Shahrazad — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAH-rah-zad /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"One Thousand and One Nights narrator"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "one thousand and one nights narrator".

Shahrazad is from the Persian shahr (شهر — city) + zād (زاد — born) — "city-born" or alternatively Chehrāzād ("of noble lineage"). Princess Shahrazad — Persian-Arabic heritage naming.

One Thousand and One Nights narrator — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

شهرزاد
Transliteration
Shahrazād
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɑː.rɑː.zɑːd /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Shahrazad stands.

Shahrazad 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.

Shahrazads before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Shahrazad (Arabian Nights)
Iconic narrator of 1,001 Nights.

Names connected to Shahrazad.

The number behind Shahrazad.

5

The Seeker

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