Parastoo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Parastoo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 182K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 309K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 182K (inferred from the name graph)
217 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Парасту in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Parastoo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 217 | 1 in 1.5M | 217 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 56 | 1 in 182K | 56 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 19 | 1 in 309K | 19 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Парасту | 13 |
| IR Iran | — | — | — | Parastoo | 3 |
217 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Parastou Forouharb. 1962IRnot in their usual nameIranian artist (born 1962)
- Parastoo Golestanib. 1971IRIranian actress
- Parastoo Salehib. 1977IRIranian actor and make-up artist
- Parastoo Hashemib. 1980irani-British neural engineer
- Parastoo Ahmadib. 1997IRIranian singer and artist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 217 | #36,519 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 56 | #12,664 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 44 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 43 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 42 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 39 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 37 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 36 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 35 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 34 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 30 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Parastoo a male or female name?
- Parastoo is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Parastoo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 217 people named Parastoo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Parastoo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Parastoo is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 182 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Parastoo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 217 people named Parastoo in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Parastoo?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/parastooThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Parastoo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.