Entry № 9455 · Persian origin

Shadi Shadi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shah-DEE /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Joy / happiness (Arabic heritage)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "joy / happiness (arabic heritage)".

Shadi is from the Persian šādī (شادی — joy, happiness) — also Arabic shādī (singer). Shadi Hamid — American political scientist. Shadi Davarpanah — Iranian artist. Shadi Paterson — modern American figure.

Joy / happiness (Persian).

The name in its native script.

شادی
Transliteration
Shādī
Pronunciation
/ ʃɑːˈdiː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shadi stands.

Shadi 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.

Shadis before her.

Real people
Shadi Ghadirian
Iranian photographer (British Museum + MoMA).
born 1974
Shadi Bartsch
American classicist (Chicago).
born 1966
In fiction
Shadi
Persian for joy.

Names connected to Shadi.

The number behind Shadi.

5

The Seeker

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