Entry № 9465 · Persian origin

Shahrazad Shahrazad — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAH-rah-zad /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"One Thousand and One Nights narrator"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "one thousand and one nights narrator".

Shahrazad is from the Persian shahr (شهر — city) + zād (زاد — born) — "city-born" or alternatively Chehrāzād ("of noble lineage"). Princess Shahrazad — Persian-Arabic heritage naming.

One Thousand and One Nights narrator — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

شهرزاد
Transliteration
Shahrazād
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɑː.rɑː.zɑːd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shahrazad stands.

Shahrazad 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.

Shahrazads before her.

Real people

In fiction
Shahrazad (Arabian Nights)
Iconic narrator of 1,001 Nights.

Names connected to Shahrazad.

The number behind Shahrazad.

5

The Seeker

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