Entry № 9460 · Persian origin

Shaheen Shaheen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shah-HEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Royal falcon (iconic Iqbal poetry)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "royal falcon (iconic iqbal poetry)".

Shaheen is from the Persian shāhīn (شاهین — royal falcon, the iconic peregrine falcon). Princess Shaheen — modern Persian-Urdu heritage naming.

Royal falcon (Persian-Urdu).

The name in its native script.

شاہین
Transliteration
Shāhīn
Pronunciation
/ ʃəˈhiːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shaheen stands.

Shaheen 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.

Shaheens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Shaheen (Iqbal)
Iconic Iqbal poetry symbol.
1935

Names connected to Shaheen.

The number behind Shaheen.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shaheen reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.