Entry № 6373 · Persian origin

Mandane Mandane — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mahn-DAH-neh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Mother of Cyrus the Great"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "mother of cyrus the great".

Mandane (مهبانو) — the Greek form of Mandanā — was the Median princess, daughter of King Astyages of Media and mother of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire.

Featured in Herodotus's Histories and Xenophon's Cyropaedia.

Mother of Cyrus the Great.

The name in its native script.

مهبانو
Transliteration
Mahbānū
Pronunciation
/ mænˈdɑː.nɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mandane stands.

Mandane 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.

Mandanes before her.

Real people
Mandane of Media
Mother of Cyrus the Great.
6th c. BCE
In fiction
Mandane
Herodotus's Histories.

Names connected to Mandane.

The number behind Mandane.

7

The Seeker

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