Entry № 6215 · Persian origin

Mahasti Mahasti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-HAH-stee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Like the moon, great being (Persian poet)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "like the moon, great being (persian poet)".

Mahasti (مهستی) combines the Persian mah (moon) and asti (being) — "moonlike being" or "great being." Mahsati Ganjavi (12th c.) was the medieval Persian poet of Ganja in Azerbaijan — author of romantic quatrains in the courtly tradition.

One of the great medieval Persian female poets.

Like the moon. The medieval Persian poet of Ganja.

The name in its native script.

مهستی
Transliteration
Mahastī
Pronunciation
/ məˈhɑː.sti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mahasti stands.

Mahasti 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.

Mahastis before her.

Real people
Mahsati Ganjavi
Medieval Persian poet.
12th c.
In fiction
Mahasti
Featured in Persian quatrains.

Names connected to Mahasti.

The number behind Mahasti.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mahasti reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.