Mehrdad is a boy's name of Persian origin meaning “given by sun.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Mehrdad at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Persian
Meaning
“given by sun”
About the name Mehrdad
Mehrdad belongs to the Persian tradition. Its meaning — “given by sun” — is the sense carried by its Persian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Mehrdad first appears in Social Security records in 1982. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #6136 in 1982, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 6 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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