Persian names

[YoungGirlGrowingOld]

So I am really getting ahead of myself here as I only just started my first IVF cycle BUT I want to do some positive pfb visualization

DH is originally from Tehran and I am really keen to choose names which have some Persian links. We are hoping that our child will speak both Farsi and English at home but DH is keen to avoid religious names. Problem is that I can't think of any Persian names I really like.... So what do folks think of:

Roxanna (Sting's 80's whore and a drinking game when I was at university...)
Azar
Rosita

Or for boys...

Anoush
Caspar (friendly ghost?)
Cyrus

(I quite like Darius too, but I can't do it because Pop Idol.)

Be honest, I can take it!!

[delilabell]

I think zara is a beautiful name. MariaM is as well.

[Artandco]

Boys

Kian
Sam

Girls

Ava
Darya
Lily
Mina
Niki
Selma
Samira
Talia
Tara

[BlueChampagne]

Stateira

[lifeinslowmotion]

One thing that strikes me is that a lot of the names that have come up on this thread are not Persian at all. Maybe it doesn't bother you as long as it's Middle Eastern but I thought I would point it out just in case because I know it was a big no no for DP who is Iranian.

For example Mariam Farrah Zara Amir Ali Camilla

Some Persian names I like or which are in DP's family are:
Kimiya
Setareh (means star)
Nasrin
Nazanin
Parisa
Aryana (my daughter's name)
Neda
Sassan
Cyrus / Siroos
Reza
Dara

[MrsCaecilius]

LOVE Roxanna and Rosita. Roxanna is Alexander the Great's wife to me and a feisty woman! Great name.

I knew a Cyrus and a Darius when I was at school. Good names, although I can see why you'd be put off Darius. Caspar is cool too - doesn't make me think of the ghost.

Strangely, I find Azar quite a masculine sound and Anoush rather feminine (to my ill educated ear!)

[Welshcake77]

Reza is my favourite male Persian name and I love Leila or Bahar for a girl.

[Zhabr]

I know a lovely girl called Roya. Also like the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Her nn was Marji.

[Sequine]

Yassamin/Jasmine
Parisa
Shahla
Ati
Nilofar
Raha
Elaheh
Mandana
Kamelia
Kimiya
Laleh
Laylei
Ida
Setareh
Nazanin
Saba
Sara
Maryam
Mahdis

Kamran (come-run)
Amir
Behzhad
Bahador
Maziyar
Eskander
Alireza
Xerxes
Sepehr
Saleh
Soren
Sam (Saam)