Entry № 812 · Persian origin

Apranik Apranik — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-prah-NIK /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Sasanian general (resisted the Arab conquest)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "sasanian general (resisted the arab conquest)".

Apranik was the 7th-century Sasanian Persian general — daughter of Piran, a Sasanian commander. Symbol of female resistance in Iranian-Zoroastrian tradition.

Featured in modern Persian-Zoroastrian literature.

Sasanian general (resisted the Arab conquest) — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

آپرانیک
Transliteration
Āprānīk
Pronunciation
/ ɑːprəˈnɪk /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Apranik stands.

Apranik 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.

Apraniks before her.

Real people
Apranik
Sasanian general.
7th c.
In fiction
Apranik
Modern Iranian historical fiction.

Names connected to Apranik.

The number behind Apranik.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Apranik reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.