Entry № 10829 · Persian origin

Turandot Turandot — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TOO-rahn-doh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Daughter of Turan (iconic Puccini opera + Nessun Dorma)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "daughter of turan (iconic puccini opera + nessun dorma)".

Turandot is from the Persian Turandokht (daughter of Turan — referring to the Persian region of Central Asia). Turandot in Persian literature — appears in the iconic Persian-Italian collection Le mille e un giorno (1710-1712) by François Pétis de la Croix — the Persian medieval source. Princess Turandot — modern Persian-Italian heritage naming.

Daughter of Turan.

The name in its native script.

توران‌دخت
Transliteration
Turandokht
Pronunciation
/ ˈtuː.rɑːn.doʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Turandot stands.

Turandot 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.

Turandots before her.

Real people

In fiction
Turandot (Puccini)
Iconic Puccini 1924 opera.
1924

Names connected to Turandot.

The number behind Turandot.

5

The Seeker

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