Bahram (name)
Gender | Male |
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Language(s) | Persian |
Origin | |
Meaning | champion |
Other names | |
See also | Vahram |
Bahram or
Persian
male given name.
The older form is Latin: Varrames), also spelled Wahrām, literally meaning "smiting of resistance" or "victorious". It is the name of several prominent figures in pre-Islamic Persia.
In the
Avestan language, that is the hypostasis of victory and represents the planet Mars
.
Given name
- Bahram, one of the sons of Goudarz in Iranian mythology
- Sassanid kings:
- Bahrām I (r. 273–276)
- Bahrām II(r. 276–293)
- Bahrām III (r. 293)
- Bahrām IV (r. 388–399)
- Bahrām V Gōr (r. 421–438)
- Bahrām VI Čōbīn (r. 590–591)
- Bahram VII (died 710)
- Bahram Gushnasp, 6th-century Sassanid military commander
- Bahram-i Mah Adhar, 6th-century Sassanid official
- Bahram ibn Ardashir al-Majusi, 10th-century Buyid official
- Bahram ibn Mafinna, 11th-century Buyid vizier
- Vahram Pahlavouni (died 1046), Armenian army commander
- Vahram Sargsyan (born 1981), Armenian composer
- Bahram ibn Shahriyar (died 1122), Bavandid prince
- Bahram al-Da'i, 12th-century leader of the Order of Assassins in Syria
- Bahram al-Armani, Fatimid vizier from 1135 to 1137
- Bahram Khan, 14th-century governor based in Bengal
- Bahram Beg, Shah of Shirvan from 1500 to 1501
- Bahram Mirza Safavi (1517-1549), Safavid prince and official
- Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan, 16th-century Bengali poet and Vizier of Chittagong
- Bahram Mirza (died 1882), Qajar prince and official
- Bahram Beyzai (born 1938), Iranian film director
- Bahram Radan (born 1979), Iranian film actor
- Bahram Nouraei (born 1988), Iranian musician
- Bakhrom Yakubov (1961–2021), Uzbek film director and screenwriter.
Surname
- Ardashir II or Ardashir Vahram (r. 379–383), Sasanian king of Iran
- Muiz ud din Bahram (1212–1242), sixth sultan of Delhi
- Pantea Bahram (born 1970), Iranian actress
- Valon Behrami (born 1985), Swiss footballer
See also
- Bahrami (surname), a surname derived from given name Bahram
- Vahrām
- Varanes (disambiguation)