Entry № 10255 · Persian origin

Tahmina Tahmina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-MEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Brave, Shahnameh heroine"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "brave, shahnameh heroine".

Tahmina (تهمینه) is the Persian name from the Shahnameh — the great epic of Persia. Tahmina was the princess of Samangan who fell in love with the hero Rostam and bore him Sohrab. Her name means "brave" or "valiant."

Tahmina is widely used in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan.

Brave. The Shahnameh heroine, Sohrab's mother.

The name in its native script.

تهمینه
Transliteration
Tahmineh
Pronunciation
/ təˈmiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tahmina stands.

Tahmina 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.

Tahminas before her.

Real people
Tahmina Anam
Bangladeshi novelist.
born 1975
In fiction
Tahmina
Heroine of the Shahnameh.
Ferdowsi, c. 1010

Names connected to Tahmina.

The number behind Tahmina.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tahmina reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.