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Parmida Parmida — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ par-MEE-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Achaemenid princess (daughter of Bardiya)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "achaemenid princess (daughter of bardiya)".

Parmida is from the Persian پارمیدا (Pārmīdā) — ancient Persian name of Achaemenid princess. Parmida is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian + Zoroastrian heritage. 539-c. 520 BCE Behistun Mountain Iran. Persian feminine name reflecting Achaemenid heritage.

Achaemenid princess (daughter of Bardiya).

The name in its native script.

پارمیدا
Transliteration
Pārmīdā
Pronunciation
/ pɑːrˈmiː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Parmida stands.

Parmida 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.

Parmidas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Parmida / Parmys
Achaemenid Persian princess + daughter of Bardiya + granddaughter of Cyrus the Great + wife of Darius the Great.
c. 539 – c. 478 BCE

Names connected to Parmida.

The number behind Parmida.

8

The Visionary

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