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Parmis Parmis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAR-mees /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Achaemenid princess (granddaughter of Cyrus)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "achaemenid princess (granddaughter of cyrus)".

Parmis is from the Persian پرمیس (Parmīs — promise, ancient Achaemenid royal name) — from Old Persian Parumiš. Parmis is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional ancient Persian heritage. CE.

Achaemenid princess (Persian).

The name in its native script.

پرمیس
Transliteration
Parmīs
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɑːr.miːs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Parmis stands.

Parmis 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.

Parmiss before her.

Real people

In fiction
Parmys
Achaemenid princess + daughter of Bardiya / Smerdis + granddaughter of Cyrus the Great + wife of Darius I 522-486 BCE + Behistun Inscription + Herodotus's Histories 3.88 + Achaemenid Empire 550-330 BCE.
~6th-5th c. BCE

Names connected to Parmis.

The number behind Parmis.

4

The Builder

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