Across the world, راست (Rast 
, Rust , راست 
) is quite a rare predominantly boy's, but very seldom girly first name. The first name راست is habitual in Iraq, where it is a rare male name, Pakistan, and Israel, where it is a rare feminine name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in Pakistan, Iraq, and Indonesia. More prevalently, راست is the last name as well as the forename.
راست is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Rust Cohle , the Fictional Police Investigator, True Detective; Russ , the fictional character from the television series Friends and Russ Owen , the UK soap opera character, created 2004, Hollyoaks.