In the entire world, Bastan (Bastan 
, باستان 
, Бастан 
) is a rare dominantly male, but seldom female first name. The given name Bastan is habitual in Georgia, where it is a rare dominantly girly, but infrequently male name, Kazakhstan, where it is a rare boy's name, and Iraq, where it is a very rare masculine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Indonesia, India, and Iraq. More prevalently, Bastan is the last name as well as the forename.