Parvin
The name points to the Pleiades, the star cluster. It sits among Poland's rarest: about 47 people carry it, and it lands on men and women alike, so meeting one either way is memorable.
Parvin Pronunciation
What Parvin means
Where Parvin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Parvin comes from Persian, where the word names the Pleiades, that small cluster of stars. Polish keeps it as gwiazda, plejady. The origin sits outside Europe's usual roots, and the name traveled through the Arabic cultural world rather than through Latin or Slavic soil.
The clearest bearer is Parvin E'tesami, the Iranian poet born in 1907. She wrote in classical forms, and her verse is still read in Iran. She died young, in 1941. Her fame gave the name a link to learning that later readers could recognize.
On a Polish class register the name would stand alone, with no diminutive beside it. Parvin has no variant, no cross-gender twin. That plainness is part of it. What it holds instead is the sky: the Pleiades, gwiazda, the cluster the old Persians already counted.
How many people are named Parvin
1 in 646854 men in Poland is named Parvin. 47 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5565 among male names.
Parvin as a middle name
Parvin is a first name for 47 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 90/10 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3800th, between Pallavi (5) and Peli̇n (5).
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#3798 Otylla5
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#3799 Pallavi5
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#3800 Parvin5
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#3801 Peli̇n5
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#3802 Pernilla5