Pirojshaw as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Pirojshaw

What is the meaning of the name Pirojshaw ?

The baby name Pirojshaw is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced pee-ROJ-shaw (IPA: /piːˈroʊʃɑː/).

Pirojshaw is Persian in Origin.

Pirojshaw is a masculine Parsi name of Persian origin, built from Middle Persian pēroz (New Persian pirūz, “victorious”) + shah (“king”), yielding the sense “victorious king” or “the king is victorious.” The final -shaw reflects Anglo-Indian spelling of shah used in colonial records.

Usage is concentrated among Zoroastrian Parsis in Gujarat and Bombay/Mumbai from the 19th–20th centuries, where it appears both as a given name and as a patronymic middle name. The streamlined modern form Pirojsha is well attested (notably in the Godrej family), while older and cognate variants include Pirojshah, Pherozeshah, Feroz Shah, Firuz Shah, and the base forms Peroz/Piruz/Pirooz. Diminutives like Piroj or Piroo occur in family use. Though rare outside the Parsi community, the name remains recognizable across the broader Indo-Persian onomastic tradition through the widespread royal compound “Firoz Shah.”

⚙ We can't find Pirojshaw in any of the birth registries or name datasets we track. It's the kind of name that tends to be rare, regional, or newly made up. Whichever it is, scarcely anyone else carries it.