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Maliheh Maliheh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-LEE-heh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Charming / pretty"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "charming / pretty".

Maliheh is from the Persian ملیحه (Malīheh — charming, pretty, salty/witty) — from Arabic malīḥah. Maliheh is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian poetic heritage. Persian feminine name reflecting Persian aesthetic heritage.

Charming / pretty (Persian).

The name in its native script.

ملیحه
Transliteration
Malīheh
Pronunciation
/ məˈliː.hɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Maliheh stands.

Maliheh 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.

Malihehs before her.

Real people
Maliheh Afnan
Palestinian-Iranian visual artist + pioneering Middle Eastern abstract expressionism + Tate Modern + British Museum + Smithsonian.
1935 – 2016
In fiction
Maliheh
Persian charming + Persian zarafat refinement heritage.

Names connected to Maliheh.

The number behind Maliheh.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maliheh reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.