Entry № 8004 · Persian origin

Parvaneh Parvaneh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ par-vah-NEH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Butterfly (Parvaneh Eskandari, Iranian activist)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "butterfly (parvaneh eskandari, iranian activist)".

Parvaneh is from the Persian parvāneh (پروانه — butterfly). Parvaneh Vahidmanesh — Iranian author. Princess Parvaneh — modern Persian royal naming. Parvaneh in Persian literature — the iconic butterfly that burns itself in the flame of love is one of the most-celebrated symbols in Persian Sufi poetry (Rumi, Hafez, Attar) representing the soul's ecstatic union with the divine.

Butterfly (Parvaneh Eskandari, Iranian activist) — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

پروانه
Transliteration
Parvāneh
Pronunciation
/ pɑːrvɑːˈnɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Parvaneh stands.

Parvaneh 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.

Parvanehs before her.

Real people
Parvaneh Forouhar
Iranian feminist activist (1998 martyr).
1939 – 1998
Parvaneh Salahshouri
Iranian reformist parliamentarian.
born 1960
In fiction
Parvaneh
Persian Sufi poetry symbol.

Names connected to Parvaneh.

The number behind Parvaneh.

4

The Builder

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