Entry № 10249 · Other origin

Tahereh Tahereh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAH-heh-reh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Pure (Tahereh Mafi Shatter Me)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "pure (tahereh mafi shatter me)".

Tahereh is from the Persian طاهره (Ṭāhereh — pure, chaste, immaculate) — from Arabic ṭāhir (pure). Tahereh is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian + Bahá'í heritage.

Pure (Tahereh Mafi Shatter Me).

The name in its native script.

طاهره
Transliteration
Ṭāhereh
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑː.hɛ.rɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tahereh stands.

Tahereh 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.

Taherehs before her.

Real people
Tahereh Mafi
Iranian-American novelist + Shatter Me series 2011+ + ~6 million copies sold + pioneering Persian-American YA literature.
born 1988
In fiction
Táhirih / Fátimih Baraghání
Persian poet + theologian + women's rights pioneer + Letters of the Living + Báb + Bahá'í Faith precursor + Conference of Badasht 1848 + among first feminists in Muslim world + executed 1852.
c. 1814 – 1852

Names connected to Tahereh.

The number behind Tahereh.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tahereh reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.