girl name · Source-indexed record
Shahrbanu
شهربان
Shahrbanu is a Persian name for girls that means wife of a king. It was the name of the daughter of the last Sassanian king, before the Persian empire fell to the Islamic armies, and it said that she married Hussain, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him.
- Arabic spelling
- شهربان
- Pronunciation
- shahhrbah-NOOAuto-generated reading guide
- Origin
- PersianSource-stated
- Gender
- girl
- First letter
- S
- Source
- Muslim Names Dataset (CC0 1.0)
About Shahrbanu
Shahrbanu is listed in the CC0 Muslim Names Dataset as a female name. The source records its meaning as “Shahrbanu is a Persian name for girls that means wife of a king. It was the name of the daughter of the last Sassanian king, before the Persian empire fell to the Islamic armies, and it said that she married Hussain, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him.”. Its origin label is stated directly in the source text. Its reader-friendly phonetic spelling is generated deterministically from the published transliteration and should be reviewed for names with complex or region-specific pronunciation.
Meaning and Arabic spelling are sourced from the Muslim Names Dataset or, where provided, the record-specific provenance URL. Origin labels are source-stated where available or transparently inferred from the published script or etymological signal. Phonetic respellings are generated reading guides, not native-speaker recordings. See Sources & methodology for data limitations.