Tahereh is from the Persian طاهره (Ṭāhereh — pure, chaste, immaculate) — foundational from Arabic ṭāhir (pure). A modern American baby name in the broader Persian-Iranian heritage aesthetic. Tahereh is one of the foundational Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian + Bahá'í heritage. The foundational name connects to foundational Táhirih / Fátimih Baraghání (c. 1814-1852) — foundational legendary foundational Persian poet + theologian + women's rights pioneer + foundational one of foundational Letters of the Living (foundational first 18 disciples of foundational Báb in foundational Bábí Faith — foundational precursor to Bahá'í Faith) + foundational famously removed her veil at foundational Conference of Badasht (1848) — foundational central declaration of foundational independence from Islamic law + foundational among first feminists in Muslim world + foundational executed for foundational heresy 1852 + foundational central to foundational Bahá'í + women's rights heritage; foundational also Tahereh Mafi (born 1988) — foundational Iranian-American novelist + foundational Shatter Me series (2011+) + ~6 million copies sold + foundational pioneering Persian-American YA literature; foundational Tahereh Saffarzadeh (1936-2008) Iranian poet + scholar + foundational Quran translator + foundational pioneering Iranian women's poetry. Foundational Persian feminine name reflecting Iranian + Bahá'í + literary heritage.
Featured throughout Persian heritage.
Tahereh 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 Tahereh reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.