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Shahrzad Shahrzad — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shahr-ZAHD /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"City born / noble lineage (Scheherazade One Thousand and One Nights)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "city born / noble lineage (scheherazade one thousand and one nights)".

Shahrzad is from the Persian شهرزاد (Shahrzād — shahr city + zād born — city born, of noble lineage). Shahrzad is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian literary heritage. Persian feminine name reflecting Persian literary heritage.

City born / noble lineage (Persian).

The name in its native script.

شهرزاد
Transliteration
Shahrzād
Pronunciation
/ ʃɑːrˈzɑːd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shahrzad stands.

Shahrzad 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.

Shahrzads before her.

Real people

In fiction
Scheherazade
Central narrator of One Thousand and One Nights + told stories for 1,001 nights to save her life.
One Thousand and One Nights

Names connected to Shahrzad.

The number behind Shahrzad.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shahrzad reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.