Bahram

Bahrām (Persian: بهرام) is a male given name. Other variants Behram, Bahran, Vahran, and Vahram (Uzbek: Баҳром, Bahrom and Tajik: Баҳром, Bahrom)

The older form is Vahrām (Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭, in Latin: Varrames), also spelled Wahrām, literally meaning "smiting of resistance" or "victorious". It is name of several prominent figures in pre-Islamic Persia.

• Verethragna (the Avestan form) or Bahram, the Zoroastrian divinity that is the hypostasis of victory

Historic people

• one of the Sassanid kings by that name:
  • Bahrām I, r. 273-276
  • Bahrām II, r. 276-293
  • Bahrām III, r. 293
  • Ardashir II, r. 379–383, who also went by the name 'Ardashir Vahram'
  • Bahrām IV, r. 388–399
  • Bahrām V Gōr, r. 421–438 (often known as Bahram Gur)
  • Bahrām VI Čōbīn, r. 590-591
  • Bahram VII
• Armenian king Gushnasp Vahram, r. 509/514-518
• Vahram Pahlavouni an Armenian army commander
• Bahram ibn Shahriyar, Bavandid prince
• Muiz ud din Bahram, the sixth sultan of Delhi
• Bahram Nouraei, Iranian Hip Hop Artist

Other

• Bahram (Shahnameh), a heroic character in Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran
• Bahram (horse), the 1935 Triple Crown Champion of British Thoroughbred Racing
• Bahram, Iran (disambiguation)
• the Persian language name for the planet Mars

See also

• Bahram (name), a popular male Persian given name
• Vahram (disambiguation)