Given name
Mehrdad
“gift of the sun”
Mehrdad is used as a given name. One Persian interpretation is “gift of the sun.”
Original Persianمهرداد
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Persian interpretation is “gift of the sun.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Persian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mehrdad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1982. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,473 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mehrdad’s family of names
Mehrdad has a related form in Mehrded. Mehrdad has a related form in Mehrdid. Mehrdad has a related form in Mehrdod.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mehrdad
- Mehrdad MinavandIranian footballer (1975-2021)
- Mehrdad PooladiIranian footballerborn 1987
- Mehrdad MohammadiIranian association football playerborn 1993
- Mehrdad OladiIranian footballer (1985-2016)
- Mehrdad IzadyKurdish Iranologistborn 1963
- Mehrdad AvestaPersian poet (1930–1991)
- Mehrdad BayramiIranian Footballerborn 1990
- Mehrdad OskoueiIranian documentary Directorborn 1969
- Mehrdad BaharIranian academic (1930-1994)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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