Behnam is a boy's name of Persian origin meaning “good.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Behnam at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Persian
Meaning
“good”
About the name Behnam
Behnam belongs to the Persian tradition. Its meaning — “good” — is the sense carried by its Persian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Behnam first appears in Social Security records in 1982. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #5631 in 1984, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 34 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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