Entry № 8242 · Persian origin

Pourandokht Pourandokht — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POOR-ahn-dokht /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Sasanian empress (one of two female shahs)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "sasanian empress (one of two female shahs)".

Featured in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.

Sasanian empress (one of two female shahs) — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

پوراندخت
Transliteration
Pūrāndoxt
Pronunciation
/ ˈpʊə.rænˌdɒxt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pourandokht stands.

Pourandokht 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.

Pourandokhts before her.

Real people
Pourandokht
Sasanian Empress of Persia.
590 – 632
In fiction
Pourandokht
Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.

Names connected to Pourandokht.

The number behind Pourandokht.

8

The Visionary

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