Entry № 6710 · Urdu origin

Mehwish Mehwish — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Urdu
Meaning
"Moon-like"
Syllables
2
First recorded

A name that means "moon-like".

Mehwish (مہوش) is an Urdu name meaning “moon-like”. Persian in root — mah, moon, with a suffix of likeness. One of the most recognisably Pakistani names of the modern era.

Moon-like — an Urdu name.

The name in its native script.

مہوش
Transliteration
Mahwish
Pronunciation
/ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mehwish stands.

Mehwish 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.

Mehwishs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Mehwish.

The number behind Mehwish.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mehwish reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.