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Hengameh Hengameh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hen-gah-MEH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Moment / uproar (Hengameh Akhavan singer)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "moment / uproar (hengameh akhavan singer)".

Hengameh is from the Persian هنگامه (Hangāmeh — moment, time, uproar, commotion). Hengameh is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian heritage. Persian feminine name reflecting Persian poetic-musical heritage.

Moment / uproar (Persian).

The name in its native script.

هنگامه
Transliteration
Hangāmeh
Pronunciation
/ hɛn.ɡɑːˈmɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hengameh stands.

Hengameh 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.

Hengamehs before her.

Real people
Hengameh Akhavan
Iranian classical singer + pioneering Iranian woman vocalist + ~30 albums + radif Persian classical music repertoire UNESCO Intangible Heritage 2009.
born 1948
In fiction
Hengameh Golestan
Iranian photojournalist + Witness 1979 documenting Iranian Revolution women's protests.

Names connected to Hengameh.

The number behind Hengameh.

7

The Seeker

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