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Golshifteh Golshifteh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GOHL-shif-teh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Bewitched by flowers"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "bewitched by flowers".

Golshifteh is from the Persian گلشیفته — gol (flower) + shifteh (bewitched, enchanted). Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی, born 1983) is an Iranian-French actress and singer — widely considered the Iranian actress in Western cinema. Dariush Mehrjui — Iranian New Wave).

Bewitched by flowers (Persian).

The name in its native script.

گلشیفته
Transliteration
Golshifteh
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡoʊl.ʃɪf.tɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Golshifteh stands.

Golshifteh 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.

Golshiftehs before her.

Real people
Golshifteh Farahani
Iranian-French actress + Body of Lies + Paterson + Extraction.
born 1983
In fiction
Golshifteh
Persian bewitched by flowers.

Names connected to Golshifteh.

The number behind Golshifteh.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Golshifteh reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.