This report provides a description of the structure of common Persian names from Iran, with an emphasis on automatic recognition of these personal names. Since the early parts of the 20th century, person proper names of Persian (Farsi) origin have been composed of a first name and a last name. There are no middle names. However, first and last names may each be a compound proper name, consisting of two subparts. The report discusses the various components of person names such as titles, honorifics, the internal structure of the first and last name, as well as affixes used to form the latter. The characteristics of the Perso-Arabic writing system (lack of capitalization, absence of short vowels, optionality in spacing) and variability in the English transcriptions are discussed in more detail as they may give rise to a number of issues for NLP applications of name matching.