Ardashir

given name · Latin script

Meaning: name, kings of Persia

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ardashir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 850K(measured from records)
  • IRIran≈1 in 4.2M
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 8M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

≈22 people, est.

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 850K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

name, kings of Persia

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ardashir counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ardashir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States≈22 est.≈1 in 15M—Ardashir30
IR Iran≈20 est.≈1 in 4.2M—Ardashir9
SE Sweden121 in 850K12—2
DE Germany≈8 est.≈1 in 11M—Ardashir9
AU Australia≈3 est.≈1 in 8M—Ardashir8

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ardashir is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Ardashīr

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran

    Also written Ardashīr

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ardashīr

  • Spanish name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ardashīr

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan

    Also written Ардашир

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran, Türkiye

    Also written Ardaşhir

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

188019001920194019601980Ardeshir Irani, b. 1886Ardeshir Ruttonji Wadia, b. 1888Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff, b. 1899Ardeshir Tarapore, b. 1923Ardeshir Cowasjee, b. 1926Ardeshir Zahedi, b. 1928Ardeshir Mohasses, b. 1938Ardeshir Hosseinpour, b. 1962Ardashir Vakil, b. 1962

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Ardashir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—12#32,195
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201112—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200512—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200412—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200312—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201411—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201311—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201211—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201011—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200911—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200811—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200711—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ardashir mean, and where does it come from?
name, kings of Persia Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
Is Ardashir a male or female name?
Ardashir is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Ardashir?
In the etymology graph, Artaxerxes is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Ardashir have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 22 people named Ardashir in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ardashir.
Where is Ardashir most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ardashir is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 850 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ardashir?
In Sweden, the national register counted 12 people named Ardashir, about 1 in 850 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ardashir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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