Shohreh is from the Persian شهره (Shohreh — famous, renowned, celebrated). A modern American baby name in the broader Persian-Iranian heritage aesthetic. Shohreh is one of the foundational Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian heritage. The foundational Persian shohreh (famous) is foundational central to foundational Persian poetic-aesthetic heritage + foundational central to foundational Persian shuhrat-talab (fame-seeking) + foundational bad-shohreh (notorious) — foundational central concepts in foundational Persian classical literature spanning foundational Hafez + Rumi + Saadi + Khayyam. Notable bearer: Shohreh Aghdashloo (born 1952) — foundational legendary foundational Iranian-American actress + foundational first Iranian to be nominated for foundational Academy Award for foundational Best Supporting Actress for foundational House of Sand and Fog (2003) + foundational Primetime Emmy Award foundational Outstanding Supporting Actress in foundational House of Saddam (2009) + foundational central to foundational The Expanse (2015-2022) — foundational pioneering Iranian-American Hollywood heritage + foundational pre-Revolutionary Iranian cinema career + foundational The Report (1977) + Chess of the Wind* (1976); foundational also Shohreh Bayat Iranian chess arbiter + foundational pioneering women's chess officiating + foundational FIDE international arbiter. Foundational Persian feminine name reflecting Iranian-American cinema heritage.
Featured throughout Persian heritage.
Shohreh does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shohreh reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.