Mehran as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mehran

What is the meaning of the name Mehran ?

The baby name Mehran is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Persian approx. /meːˈrɑːn/; anglicized 'MEH-rahn' or 'MEHR-ahn'..

Mehran is Persian in Origin.

Mehran (Persian مهران, Mehrān) is a Persian masculine name and surname from mehr/mihr, the Middle Persian name of Mithra, the Indo‑Iranian god of covenant, friendship, and the sun. In modern Persian mehr also means “affection, kindness, love” and “sun.” The suffix ‑ān expresses possession or intensity, yielding senses such as “full of affection,” “sunlike,” or “belonging to Mithra.”

Attested since late antiquity, it appears in the House of Mihrān, one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran under the Parthians and Sasanians, and later across Persianate lands. Today it is common in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Kurdish areas, and used in South Asia, where Mehrān also poetically names the Indus. Variants include Mihrān/Mehrān (scholarly/Armenian forms) and Meheran; related names are Mehrdad and Meher. It functions as both given name and surname; feminine counterpart: Mehri.