Entry № 3735 · Persian origin

Goharshad Goharshad — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GOH-har-shad /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Joyful jewel (iconic Goharshad Begum Timurid queen)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "joyful jewel (iconic goharshad begum timurid queen)".

Goharshad is from the Persian gohar (گوهر — jewel, pearl) + shād (شاد — joyful) — "joyful jewel." Goharshad Begum (c. Princess Goharshad — Persian-Central Asian heritage naming.

Joyful jewel (Persian).

The name in its native script.

گوهرشاد
Transliteration
Gowharshād
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡoʊ.hɑːr.ʃɑːd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Goharshad stands.

Goharshad 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.

Goharshads before her.

Real people
Goharshad Begum
Iconic Timurid queen + Goharshad Mosque Mashhad + Herat.
c. 1378 – 1457
In fiction
Goharshad
Persian joyful jewel.

Names connected to Goharshad.

The number behind Goharshad.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Goharshad reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.