Entry № 6435 · Persian origin

Maral Maral — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-RAHL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Red deer (Persian-Turkic)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "red deer (persian-turkic)".

Maral (مارال) is the Persian-Turkic word for the maral red deer (Cervus elaphus maral) of the Caucasus and Caspian highlands.

Used widely in Iran and the Turkic-speaking world.

Red deer. The Persian-Turkic.

The name in its native script.

مارال
Transliteration
Māral
Pronunciation
/ məˈrɑːl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Maral stands.

Maral 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.

Marals before her.

Real people

In fiction
Maral
Common in Iranian and Azerbaijani fiction.

Names connected to Maral.

The number behind Maral.

9

The Giver

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