Tihran
Tihran comes from the Armenian Tigran and carries the sense of "tiger". In Poland it stays a name most people will never meet: fewer than 70 men hold it, and no boys were given it last year.
Tihran Pronunciation
Tihran is pronounced TEEKH-rahn (/ˈtixran/).
What Tihran means
Where Tihran comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tihran comes to Polish ears through Armenia, from the older name Tigran. Its best-known bearer is Tigranes the Great, who ruled Armenia from 95 to 55 BC and stretched his kingdom from the Caspian toward the Mediterranean. He claimed the title King of Kings. So the name arrives with a crown already on it.
The meaning most people attach is tiger. Scholars trace Tigran back to Old Persian, where a root for something sharp sits close to the animal, and the tiger reading grew from there. In Polish the sense lands as potężny jak tygrys, powerful as a tiger.
Tihran keeps no Polish diminutives of its own. On a school class register it stands whole, six letters, next to a Kacper or a Bartek. The tiger stays in the meaning, Tigran stays in the root.
How many people are named Tihran
1 in 313915 men in Poland is named Tihran. 68 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4409 among male names.