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Katayoun Katayoun — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-tah-YOON /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Shahnameh queen (Goshtasp's wife)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "shahnameh queen (goshtasp's wife)".

Katayoun is from the Persian کتایون — possibly from Old Persian kata-yauna (Greek city-related, of the Greek). Katayoun is one of the queens of the Shahnameh (Ferdowsi, c. Persian feminine name.

Shahnameh queen (Goshtasp's wife).

The name in its native script.

کتایون
Transliteration
Katayoun
Pronunciation
/ ˌkɑː.təˈjuːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Katayoun stands.

Katayoun 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.

Katayouns before her.

Real people
Katayoun Riahi
Iranian actress + Hijab Resistance figure 2022.
born 1962
In fiction
Katayoun (Shahnameh)
Shahnameh queen + Goshtasp's wife.
c. 1010

Names connected to Katayoun.

The number behind Katayoun.

9

The Giver

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