Entry № 6704 · Urdu origin

Mehreen Mehreen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ meh-REEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Urdu
Meaning
"Sun-like / iconic Pakistani filmmaker"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "sun-like / iconic pakistani filmmaker".

Mehreen is from the Persian-Urdu mehr (مہر — sun, love, kindness) + -een (suffix). Mehreen Mansoor — Pakistani-American academic. Princess Mehreen — Pakistani heritage naming.

Sun-like / iconic Pakistani filmmaker — a Urdu name.

The name in its native script.

مہرین
Transliteration
Mehreen
Pronunciation
/ mɛˈriːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mehreen stands.

Mehreen 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.

Mehreens before her.

Real people
Mehreen Jabbar
Iconic Pakistani Tribeca filmmaker.
born 1971
Mehreen Faruqi
First Muslim Australian Senator 2018.
born 1963
In fiction
Mehreen
Persian-Urdu sun-like.

Names connected to Mehreen.

The number behind Mehreen.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mehreen reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.