{{More citations needed|date=January 2021|bot=noref (GreenC bot)}} {{Infobox given name | name = Mehrzad | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation= | gender = Male | meaning = | region = | origin = Iran | related names = Meher, Meherazad, Mehr, Meherabad, Mehrdad | footnotes = }} {{Zoroastrianism sidebar}} '''Mehrzad''' or '''Meherzad''' (Persian: مهرزاد | Avestan: Miθra) is an Avestan name which has a meaning related to the Yazata Mithra.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mithra-i|title=MITHRA i. MITRA IN OLD INDIAN – Encyclopaedia Iranica|website=www.iranicaonline.org|access-date=2019-07-17}}</ref> Mehr (مهر) means "sun" and zād (زاد) means "born of". So the literal meaning of Mehrzād (مهرزاد) is born of sun.
==See also== *Mehr (name) *Meher (disambiguation) *Meherazad
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