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Mitra Mitra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEE-trah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Friend / Zoroastrian Mithra deity"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "friend / zoroastrian mithra deity".

Mitra is from the Persian میترا (Mitrā) — from Avestan Miθra ancient Zoroastrian deity cognate with Sanskrit Mitra (friend/companion/sun-god). Mitra is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional pre-Islamic Iranian + Vedic Hindu heritage.

Friend / Zoroastrian Mithra deity (Persian).

The name in its native script.

میترا
Transliteration
Mitrā
Pronunciation
/ ˈmiː.trə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mitra stands.

Mitra 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.

Mitras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Mithra / Mitra
Zoroastrian Yazata of covenant + friendship + Avesta Mihr Yasht + Mithraism Roman mystery cult.
Avesta

Names connected to Mitra.

The number behind Mitra.

7

The Seeker

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