Writing Adolescent Fiction/Character names/Persian

Usage note Sometimes people in Iran still use the ancient Persian given names, such as Taraneh. Girls' names Afareen Afsar Afshan Afsoon Aghigh Ahou Akhtar Akram Alia Anahita Anusheh Ara Arezoo Armaghan Aroosha Arshfam Assieh Atefeh Atoosa Atussa Avizeh Ayasha Azar Azara Azita Azur Azura Bahar Baharak Bahareh Banou Beeta Behbaha Behkrakh Behnaz Behrokh Bita Bodagh Bolour Bousseh Chalipa Chehreh Darya Daryadokht Deena Delara Delbar Delkash Dina Donya Dorri Dorrin Dorsai Dorsay Ehteram Elaheh Elham Elnaz Ezzati Fakhri Farah Faranak Farangis Fariba Farida Farideh Farkhondeh Farnaz Farzaneh Fatimah Feerouzeh Fereshteh Feri Firouzeh Forough Forouzan Forouzandeh Fozhan Gatha Geesou Ghamzeh Ghassedak Ghazaleh Ghodsi Ghoncheh Gisou Golbahar Golgoon Goli Golnar Golnaz Golnessa Golpari Golshan Golshon Gordia Guita Guiti Guity Habibeh Haleh Hamaseh Hasti Hengameh Hoda Homeira Hormat Houri Iman Iran Iran-dokht Ishraqi Jabbareh Jaleh Jannat Jilla Katayoun Khandan Khojassteh Khorsheed Kimiyaa Kira Kobra Kokab Korsum Kowkab Ladan Laila Laleh Layly Leily Leyla Lida Lili Mahasti Mahbod Mahbubih Maheen Mahkameh Mahlagha Mahnoosh Mahrokh Mahsa Mahta Mahvash Maliheh Mana Mandi Mandona Manizheh Marjan Marmar Maryam Marzieh Masoumeh Mastoureh Mehrangiz Mehrnoosh Mehry Minan Mitra Moloud Moneereh Morvarid Mozhdeh Mozhgan Naghmeh Nahal Naheed Najmeh Nakisa Narda Nargess Naseem Nasreen Nastaran Nava Nazafarin Nazanin Nazgol Nazhin Nazilla Neda Negar Negeen Negin Neshat Nikoo Niloufar Niyoosha Nora Noushafarin Oldooz Oranous Ordoukhany Orkideh Parand Parastoo Paree Pareechehr Pareerou Pareevash Parisa Parto Parvaneh Parvin Peymaneh Peyvand Pouneh Pouran Pouran-dokht Ramak Ramesh Razieh Reema Reyhaneh Rima Roksana Roudabeh Roxana Roya Sadira Saeedeh Saghar Saghi Saharnaz Sahba Saideh Salomeh Sameen Sanaz Sareh Sarvenaz Sattareh Sayeh Seema Sepideh Setareh Shabnam Shabnan Shadan Shadi Shaghayegh Shahdi Shaheen Shahin Shahla Shahnaz Shahrbanou Shahrzad Shalizeh Shams Sheefteh Sheeva Shervin Sheyda Shohreh Shokouh Sholeh Shouka Simin Soheila Soray Soroushi Soudabeh Soulmaz Soussan Suri Tahmineh Talayeh Taranish Tarsa Touca Touran Turandot Vashti Veeda Vida Yalda Zarrin Zeeba Zeresh Zeridia Zhaleh Zhila Zohreh Zoya Boys' names Abdolkhalegh Abtin Afshar Afsharafshin Afshin Aghajun Ahour Alireza Anoush Arash Arastoo Ardalan Ardavan Ardeshir Aref Aria Ario Armeen Arsalan Arshia Arya Arzhang Asghar Ashk Ashrafzadeh Assim Atash Atid Avesta Azghar Babak Bahman Bahram Baktash Bamdad Bameen Bamshad Bardia Bauback Behnam Behrang Behrooz Behrouz Behzad Bijan Borna Borzoo Bozorgmehr Cambiz Changeez Dadbeh Danesh Dara Darab Dareh Darioush Dariush Daryoosh Davab Davood Derafsh Dhabihullah Ehsan Emad Esfandiar Esfandyar Esmail Etehade Fafar Faghani Fahimifar Faramarz Faraz Farbod Farchid Fardad Farhad Farhang Fariborz Farjad Farrokh Farrokhzad Farshid Farsin Farzad Farzam Farzin Fazlollah Fereydoon Ferydoun Firouz Forood Foroohar Forouq Gazsi Ghaffar Ghebers Ghobad Giv Goodarz Gorban Goshtasb Goudarz Guebers Haider Hajir Hamidreza Heydar Hojjat Homayoun Hooshang Hooshyar Hootan Hormoz Houman Iraj Jamsheed Jamshid Javad Javeed Javid Jivan Kamal Kambiz Kamran Kamshad Kamyar Kansbar Karamat Karbaschi Kasra Kaveh Kavoos Kayan Kayvan Kayvon Keivan Keyan Key-ghobad Key-khosrow Keyvan Khodadad Khosrow Kianoosh Kiarash Kiomars Kiumars Kiyan Koohyar Koorosh Koosha Kouros Kourosh Kush Kusha Madjid Mahbad Mahyar Majeed Majid Mani Manouchehr Mashreza Massood Mazdah Maziar Mazyar Mehrab Mehrak Mehran Mehrdad Mehrshad Mehrzad Moana Mohsen Mojtaba Monaghi Moosa Morteza Mozaffar Namdar Nariman Navid Neema Nema Newsha Nima Niyoosha Nizamid Nouri Noushzad Omeed Omid Orang Panahy Parham Parsa Parshang Parviz Pasha Payam Pazhang Pedram Pedrom Pejman Perjad Peyman Peyvand Pezhman Phiroz Pirooz Pirous Piroz Poerya Pooya Pouriya Poya Pujman Pyruz Rambod Ramin Rasoul Reza Roozbeh Rostam Rovin Saber Sadegh Saeed Salar Sam Saman Sami Sasan Sattar Sepehr Seyed Seyyed Shahab Shahbaz Shaheen Shahin Shahkam Shahram Shahriar Shahriyar Shahrokh Shahrooz Shahvand Shapour Shatrevar Shervin Shirzad Showan Siamak Siavash Siavosh Siavush Soheil Sohrab Sooudi Soroush Suhayl Syavash Tabriz Taher Tahmaseb Tahmouress Tarazullah Teymour Tirdad Touraj Vafa Viraf Vishtasb Yaghoub Yahya Yashar Zahak Zaheer Zakaria Zal Zamani Zamyad Zand Zartosht Zia Ancient Persian girls' names Ajda Alma Almira Altair Amber Amestrin Amestris Armida Artaynta Artazostra Artystone Asiria Atossa Avesta Azura Azure Badia Barsine Bethany Bibi Cyra Damaspia Daria Dickla Drypetis Dunya Esther Hutaosa Idra Illit Kalila Kira Laila Laleh Layla Leila Lila Lilac Lilith Mamaea Mania Marjan Martha Mawia Mitra Muriel Nahid Pari Parmys Parveneh Parvin Parysatis Phaedyme Pheretima Phratagune Raokshna Razili Roshan Roshanara Roxana Roxanna Roxanne Saba Sadira Samantha Samira Semiramis Shahnaz Sima Sisygambis Soraya Souzan Stateira Tamath Taraneh Teli Tomyris Vega Zade Zaibunissa Zarina Zelica Zena Zenana Zenda Zohrah Zohreh Ancient Persian boys' names Ahasver Aidoneus Alpistos Amphistreus Anaphes Anchares Araxis Ardisher Argestes Arisai Arizus Armamithras Arsakes Arses Arsha Artabanus Artabarzanes Artaeus Artamenes Artaxerxes Artobazanes Artybius Azanes Bademus Bagaeus Bagoas Baraxis Bassaces Betis Bistanes Boubakes Bubares Cambyses Cherasmis Cyrus Darius Datis Daurises Deioces Diaexis Dotamas Dotus Gergis Gobryas Gyges Histaeus Histanes Hymeas Imaeos Ithamatres Kashtaritu Kersi Khurshid Lilaios Lythimnas Magos Maraphis Marsena Mascames Masistes Masistras Massages Mazaces Mazaios Megabates Megabyzus Megadostes Memphis Menapis Mitrobates Myrsus Nabaranes Nasim Ninus Oarizus Ochus Oeobazus Oroites Oxathres Parshandatha Parthos Pegastagon Pelagon Petosiris Pharnabazus Pharnaces Pharnazathres Pissuthnes Prexaspes Psammis Sanballat Sargon Sasan Sharezer Soroush Syennesis Taboras Tallis Teaspes Teispes Tissaphernes Tithaeus Tolmos Ukshatar Vishtaspa Xanthes Xerxes Zopyrus Surnames Top 10 Abbasi Ahmadi Rahimi Tehrani Hosseini Shirazi Mohammadi Jafari Ebrahimi Salehi Others Abdi Abdollahi Abedi Abedini Abolhassan Abouzar Adeli Afnan Afshar Afsharazad Afshari Aftandilians Aghaei Ahari Ahmadi Ahmadian Ahmadinejad Ahmadzadeh Ahoobim Ahrari Akbari Akbarzadeh Akhavan Akhlaghi Ala Alam Alavi Alavizadeh Alemzadeh Alimohammadi Alipour Alireza Alizadeh Allahverdi Ameri Amini Aminian Amir Amiri Amirsadeghi Ammini Amouzegar Amuzgar Anoushiravani Ansari Anvari Arasteh Arbabi Ardabili Ardalan Arfa Arian Armanjani Asadi Asadzadeh Asgapur Asgari Asghari Ashrafi Ashrafy Askari Astaneh Avarigan Awji Azad Azadi Azar Azari Azarvand Azimi Azizi Babaei Bagheri Bagherpour Bahador Bahar Bahmani Bahonar Bahrami Bakhshi Bakhtavar Bakhtiar Bakhtiari Balakhane Bani Banihshemi Bannazadeh Bano Baraghoush Baraheri Baranzadeh Barati Bassiri Batouli Bayat Bazargan Bazshushtari Begzadeh Beheshti Behforooz Behrang Behrouzi Behtash Beykpour Bihmardi Bolourchi Boroomand Borzorg Burujirdi Bushiri Caspari Dabir Dalvand Dardashti Dargahi Daramad Dastghayb Dastmalchi Davisadr Davoodi Davoodzadeh Dehdari Dehghan Dehghani Dehmohseni Deldari Dhabihiyan Diba Dihmubidi Dihqani Divani Djahani Djeiran Dulabi Ebadi Ebtehaj Eftekhari Emami Esfahani Eshraghi Eskandari Eslami Esmaeili Esmaili Ettehadieh Faghiri Fahandizh Falaki Fallah Farahani Farahmand Faraji Farhadi Faridi Farizeh Farmaian Farzan Fatemi Fathi Fattahi Fazeli Feroz Firouzian Foodeei Forrughi Gafari Gaffari Garoussi Gazsi Geramipour Ghaderi Ghafari Ghaffari Ghafoori Ghahramani Ghanbari Gharib Ghasemi Ghatary Ghawami Ghazanfaria Ghazi Ghobadi Ghofranian Gholami Ghorbani Ghurani Golbad Goli Goodarzi Guebers Habibi Hadizadeh Haghighi Haghkerdar Haji Hajimiru Hajirnia Hajjari Hajizadeh Hakimi Hakimzadeh Hami Hamidi Hamzeh Hamzei Haqiqat Haqiqatju Hariri Hasani Hashemi Hassani Hassna Hatami Hed Heidari Hejazi Hemami Heydari Heydarzadeh Heyman Hisami Homayoun Hoseini Hossein Hosseinzadeh Hossini Hoveyda Hushmand Ila Imami Imani Iran Irani Iravan Ishraqi Ispahani Izadi Jad Jaffari Jahanpur Jalali Jalalzadeh Jalili Jamali Jamshidi Janzadeh Javadi Javaherian Javid Javidzadeh Jayhoon Joon Jorjani Kalani Kalantari Kamali Kamkar Kamran Kamvar Kangarloo Karami Karamzadeh Kargar Karimi Kashani Kashi Kassaian Kazemi Kazerooni Kazimi Keshavarz Keshtkar Keshuapad Khadem Khademi Khademzadeh Khadim Khailtash Khalidi Khalili Khamenei Khan Khandil Khani Khanlary Khanzadeh Khodavandi Khomeini Khorsandi Khoshnou Khosrozadeh Khosravi Khushkhu Khuzayn Kiani Kiyan Koochekzadeh Kordiyeh Kouroshy Kutchemeshgi Lavasani Loghmanpour Lotfi Madani Madari Maghsoudi Mahallati Mahamedi Mahdavi Mahdavian Mahdavy Mahmoodi Mahmoudi Mahmudi Mahmudnizhad Majidi Malaki Malek Maleki Maniei Manouchehr Mansoori Mansouri Mansur Manuchehri Maradi Maravandi Mashayekhi Masoumi Massumi Mazaheri Mazlum Mehr Mehrabi Mehran Mesgara Mesgarzadeh Meshkat Mihdizadih Mir Miri Mirza Mirzadi Mirzaee Mirzaei Misbahi Missaghi Moayedian Moayer Moazzami Moghadam Moghaddam Moghdam Mohaghegh Moham Mohamadi Mohammadzadeh Mohebian Mohseni Mokhtari Momeni Monjazeb Moosavi Moradi Moradzadeh Mortazavi Mosavi Moshiri Mossadegh Mossadeghi Motaei Motamedi Moullai Mousavi Mozayeni Mualimi Muhammadi Muini Mumtaz Mumtazi Muqimi Musavi Mutlaq Nabbatishoghl Naderi Nadimi Nadjmabadi Naimi Najafi Najmi Namazian Namiri Naraghi Naseri Nasiri Nasr Nassiri Navabi Nazari Nejati Nekouian Nemati Nemazi Nexam Nexamzadeh Nia Nikkaresfahani Nirumand Noori Noroozi Norouzi Nouri Omidi Omranzadeh Pad Pahlavi Pakravan Pakzad Palizban Panahi Parsa Parvinzadeh Peyvan Pirani Piruzmand Poshtkouhi Pourazizi Pourmand Qashqai Qazai Qazvinian Qoli Rabani Rad Radji Rafiee Rafieha Rafigdoost Rah Rahimian Rahmani Rahmati Raissi Rajabi Ramazan Ramezani Ranjbar Rashedi Rashidi Rasouli Rateshtari Rawhani Raz Razavi Razaz Razi Razizadeh Razmara Reyahni Reza Rezaee Rezaei Rezaie Rezvani Rizvi Roohizadegan Rostami Rouhani Saadat Saadiyeh Sabbaghi Sabbah Saberi Saberzadeh Sabet Sabetzadeh Sabiri Sadeghi Sadighi Sadighpour Sadiqi Sadough Sadravi Saeedi Safarian Saghafi Sahebi Saidi Salamat Salari Salimi Salimpour Samadi Samadzadeh Sanjabi Saraee Sarmad Sayedzadeh Sayegh Seddighi Shabani Shabouh Shadpour Shafaie Shafaq Shafiee Shafiei Shah Shahbaz Shahbazi Shahdost Shahnaser Shahy Shahzadeh Shakeri Shakernia Shakshuki Shalabi Shams Shariat Shariati Sharif Sharifzadeh Sharifi Shaterian Shayan Sheikholeslami Shirazi Shojaei Shokouhi Shokri Showghi Sioshansi Siyavushi Sohi Sohrabi Soleimani Soleymani Soltani Soltanzadeh Sorooshian Soroushian Sotoudeh Sumech Taba Tabazadeh Tabarsi Tabatabaei Tabatabai Tafti Taghavi Taghizadeh Taheri Tahmasebi Tahsini Talaqani Talati Talavi Talebi Talei Taleqani Tanzeem Tavakoli Tazhibi Teymourtash Teymourzadeh Tirandaz Torabi Usman Vafa’i Vahdat Vakili Vali Valizadeh Yakhi Yaldai Yaqtin Yarmand Yasaimaibofi Yazd Yazdani Yazdi Youkhana Yousef Yousefi Yousefzadeh Zadeh Zaeem Zahed Zahedani Zahedi Zaidi Za’irpur Zamani Zandi Zangenah Zanjani Zarandi Zardoshty Zare Zarei Zargar Zartoshty Zavvar Ziatabari Ziya Zolfaghari Writing Adolescent Fiction