Entry № 7985 · Persian origin

Pari Pari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Fairy, beautiful"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "fairy, beautiful".

Pari (پری) is the Persian word for "fairy" — the supernatural beings of Persian and broader Middle Eastern folklore, often beautiful, sometimes mischievous. By extension, the word is used to describe a woman of extraordinary beauty.

Pari is used as a girl's name across Iran, Afghanistan, and the broader Persian-speaking world. It also appears in Urdu, Hindi, and Turkish.

Fairy, beautiful — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

پری
Transliteration
Parī
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɑː.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pari stands.

Pari 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.

Paris before her.

Real people
Pari Saberi
Iranian theatre director.
born 1933
In fiction
Pari
Character in Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed.
2013 novel

Names connected to Pari.

The number behind Pari.

8

The Visionary

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