Khosrow

Khosrow steps straight out of the Shahnameh, where Khosrow I ruled Sasanian Persia as the just king, the architect of law and learning, and Khosrow II chased the legendary love of Shirin across centuries of poetry and miniature paintings. The name carries the sense of a good name, a king with fame. In modern Persian it sounds as khos-ROW, that opening consonant lightly guttural, a texture English speakers often soften. It remains traditional rather than trendy in Iran, and rare abroad, which is part of its draw. Khosrow reads scholarly, romantic, older than most dynasties, and entirely at ease.