Mehrunnisa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- meh-roon-NIS-a
- Origin
- Persian
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Mehrunnisa is a girls' name of Persian origin, meaning “sun among women”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Mehrunnisa mean?
Persian: Persian mehr 'sun, love' + Arabic un-nisa 'of women'
“sun among women”
Mehr-un-Nissa was the birth name of Nur Jahan, the powerful Mughal empress and wife of Emperor Jahangir.
Is Mehrunnisa a girl's or a boy's name?
Mehrunnisa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mehrunnisa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 267% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Mehrunnisa, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,326th.
2025 had the most girls named Mehrunnisa of any year since it first appeared, in 1999.
In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were given Mehrunnisa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,226, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
- Mehrunisa 5
- Mehrunnisa 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Mehrunnisa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 1 | #7,326 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
Names like Mehrunnisa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Mahsa, Mehrima, Madiha, Maliha, Mahira, Muntaha, Safa, Maha, Abeeha, Munira, Khadija, Halima
More Persian names
Jasper, Esther, Jasmine, Casper, Cyrus, Yasmin, Darius, Zorawar, Kiyan, Rumi, Yasmine, Kasper, Mahnoor, Dario, Arian, Arman
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mehrunnisa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mehrunnisa, updated 20 October 2026.