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Browse Parsi and Zoroastrian baby names with their Avestan and Persian meanings, filtered by gender, first letter and source.
The Parsi Baby Name Finder searches a curated list of Parsi and Zoroastrian names where every entry names its source: the seven Amesha Spentas in their Middle Persian forms — Bahman, Ardibehesht, Shehrevar, Aspandard, Khordad and Amardad — the yazatas such as Meher, Sarosh, Rashne and Behram, the Shahnameh's kings and heroes from Jamshed to Rustom, and historical figures including Zarathushtra, Cyrus and Ardeshir. Many of these names are also the names of days and months in the Zoroastrian calendar, which runs twelve months of thirty named days, and those day and month numbers are shown with the entry. Filter by gender, first letter, syllable count and language of origin.
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Set Gender, Source in the tradition, Language of origin and Syllables, or type into Search name or meaning (the placeholder suggests fire, sun, victory, Shahnameh) and pick a Starting letter.
Set Names to show to control how long the shortlist runs, then press Shuffle to draw a different slice of the same matches when the current set stops yielding candidates.
Read Names matching your filters with Shown below, the boys / girls split and Names in the full list of 89, each entry carrying its meaning, language-of-origin label and its Zoroastrian day or month number where it has one; press Copy list.
Each entry names the yazata, Amesha Spenta, epic figure or ruler it comes from.
Where a name is also a roj or a month, its day and month number are shown with it.
Avestan, Old Persian, Middle Persian and modern Persian forms are labelled separately.
Four sources dominate: the Amesha Spentas and yazatas of Zoroastrian scripture, the thirty named days of the Zoroastrian month, the Shahnameh's kings and heroes, and the names of historical Persian rulers. Descriptive Persian words such as Roshan (bright), Zarine (golden) and Shirin (sweet) make up most of the rest.
The Zoroastrian calendar runs twelve months of thirty days, with five Gatha days added at the end, and every day carries a divine name. The first is Hormazd, followed by Bahman, Ardibehesht and Shehrevar; Meher is the sixteenth, Sarosh the seventeenth and Behram the twentieth. Many Parsi families choose a name connected to the roj on which the child was born.
Avestan is the language of the oldest Zoroastrian scripture, and gives forms like Mithra, Sraosha, Vishtaspa and Spentodata. Those became Meher, Sarosh, Gushtasp and Aspandiar in Middle and modern Persian. Both belong to the same tradition; the Avestan forms are simply older.
Behram comes from Avestan Verethragna, the yazata of victory, and means the smiter of resistance. It is the name of the twentieth day of the Zoroastrian month, and the highest of the three grades of Zoroastrian fire temple is the Atash Behram.