Entry № 6703 · Persian origin

Mehr Mehr — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Love, sun, kindness"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "love, sun, kindness".

Mehr (مهر) is the Persian word for "love," "kindness," and "sun." In Zoroastrian tradition, Mehr (Mithra) is the deity of light, justice, and contract — the same deity that became the Roman Mithras.

Mehr is widely used in modern Iran.

Love, sun, kindness. The Persian word.

The name in its native script.

مهر
Transliteration
Mehr
Pronunciation
/ mɛr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mehr stands.

Mehr 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.

Mehrs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Mehr
Common in Persian poetry.

Names connected to Mehr.

The number behind Mehr.

8

The Visionary

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