People of the Soundless Sea
Naming Traditions
Feminine names
Amaya,Anahita, Anousheh, Arezu, Arian, Ashraf, Astar, Atoosa, Azar, Azadeh, Banu, Baharak, Bita, Donya, Farangis, Frida (Alternative: "Farideh"), Farnaz, Farzaneh, Fatemeh, Fereshteh, Goli, Gordafarid, Jaleh, Kasra, Kiana, Khorshid (alternative spelling: "Xorshid"), Laleh, Leila, Mandana, Mahshid, Maryam, Mehregan, Mina, Mithra, Mojugan, Nasrin, Nazanin, Niloufar, Parastu, Pardis, Parisa, Parvin, Payvand, Reyhan, Roksaneh, Roya, Roxana, Sepideh, Sara, Shirin, Simin, Soraya, Soheila, Sahar, Tahmineh, Tara, Taraneh, Tarsa, Tannaz, Yasmin, Yasamin, Zarine, Zhila, Zaynab
Masculine names
Abbas, Ashkan, Ahmad, Ali, Amin, Amir, Ardashir, Afshin, Arian, Ario, Arshad, Arman, Armin, Amir, Arash, Arshia, Arshiya, Ardeshir, Arvin, Arwin, Ashem, Atash, Bijan, Babak, Bahrom, Bardia, Basir, Behnam, Dalir, Dariush (Darius), Davoud, Derafsh, Ebrahim, Ervin, Erwin, Ehsan, Eskandar, Esmail, Izad, Farhad, Farbod, Farrokh, Farshid, Garshasp, Gilgamesh, Giv, Hirash, Goshtasp, Hamid (Ḥamīd), Hassan, Hirbod, Hashem, Hossein, Hormuzd (Hormozd), Jamshid, Javad, Kamran, Karim, Kasra, Kazem, Khashayar, Khosrow, Kiarash, Kourosh, Mahmoud, Mazdak, Mazdan, Maziar, Mehran, Manuchehr, Marduk, Massoud, Mehrdad, Marzban, Meherzad (Zoroastrian), Mehdi, Meysam, Milad, Mir, Mithradates. Mohammad, Musa, Omid, Papak, Parizad, Parsa, Parviz, Payam, Pedram, Piruz, Pouria, Ramin, Reza, Rostam, Sadegh, Sajad, Saman, Samir, Sassan, Sepehr, Shahin, Shapour, Shahryar, Shervin, Sohrab, Soroush, Tirdad, Turan, Vahid, Vandad, Varshasp, Ramin, Yaghoub, Yahya, Younes, Yousef, Yazdan, Zand, Zartosht, Zurvan, Zana
Family names
Abbasi, Abed, Ahura, Ardavan, Aria, Armand, Avesta, Ebrahimi, Esfahani (Alternative: "Spahany"), Esfandiari (Alternative: "Spandiary"), Farrokhzad, Farahmand, Ghorbani, Gul, Hanifnejad, Hashemi, Homayoun, Hooshang, Jahandar, Jahangir, Jahanshah, Jamshidi, Jang-Ju, Kavoosi, Kazemi, Khadem, Khiabani, Khorasani, Khorram-Din, Lajani, Madani, Mazdaki, Mazdani, Mehregan, Mazandarani, Mokri, Mishdar, Mohsen, Piranshahrizadeh, Pahlavi, Paria, Pishdar, Parsi, Pouran, Rahbar, Rajavi, Rezaei, Rostamian, Sassani, Shamshiri, Salehrad, Shir-Del, Shirazi, Tehrani, Teymouri, Tir, Turan, Turan
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