Farangiz
The name carries the sense of "foreign woman," someone from the Frankish or European west. Only 13 women in Poland go by it, so almost no one here has met a Farangiz.
Farangiz Pronunciation
Farangiz is pronounced fah-RAHN-gees (/faˈrangis/).
What Farangiz means
Where Farangiz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Farangiz begins with a single Persian word, farang. It once named the Franks, a Germanic people. Later it came to mean any European, and later still any foreigner at all. The short meaning sits at the end of that line: a European woman, an outsider. The root reached Persian through Arabic, where the Franks were called ifranji.
The name has an old home in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, the Persian epic completed around 1010. There Farangis is the daughter of Afrasiab, king of Turan, and the wife of the prince Siyavash. After Siyavash is killed, she flees and raises their son, Kay Khosrow, who grows into one of the poem's great kings.
In Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, Farangiz is an ordinary given name today. On a Polish class register it would stand out, three syllables among the Zosias and Julias. The form stays whole. Farangiz keeps its old sense of the foreign woman, the one from Farang.
How many people are named Farangiz
1 in 1734141 women in Poland is named Farangiz. 13 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13294 among female names.