Mehrdad

Mehrdad
Pronunciation	Persian: [mehɾdɒːd]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Persian
Meaning	given by Mehr
Region of origin	Iran
Other names
Related names	Mithridates

Mehrdād (Persian: مهرداد‎, pronounced [mehɾdɒːd] (listen)) is a common Persian male given name in Iran and other Persian speaking countries. Mehr (مهر) means "sun" or "love" and Dād (داد) means "given". So the literal meaning of Mehrdād (مهرداد) is given by sun or given by love.

Mehrdad is a historical Persian name that derives from Middle Persian Mihrdāt (Old Persian Miθradāta), a theophoric name meaning 'given by Mehr'. Mehr is an alternative name for Mithra, a Zoroastrian divinity and hypostasis of covenant.

In present-day Iran, the name Mehrdad is also retroactively applied to several historic figures that appear in western literature as Mithridates, a hellenized or philhellenic form of Mehrdad.

References

Schmitt, Rüdiger (1970), "Die theophoren Eigennamen mit altiranisch *Miθra-", Acta Iranica, 17: 395–455

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