Entry № 8869 · Persian origin

Roshanara Roshanara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ roh-shah-NAH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Light-adorned (Aurangzeb's sister)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "light-adorned (aurangzeb's sister)".

Sister of Jahanara, but their paths diverged dramatically.

Adorned with light. Aurangzeb's intriguing Mughal sister.

The name in its native script.

روشن آرا
Transliteration
Roshanārā
Pronunciation
/ ˌroʊ.ʃəˈnɑː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Roshanara stands.

Roshanara 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.

Roshanaras before her.

Real people
Princess Roshanara
Mughal princess, Aurangzeb's sister.
1617 – 1671
In fiction
Roshanara
Common in Mughal historical fiction.

Names connected to Roshanara.

The number behind Roshanara.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Roshanara reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.