Ruştam
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ruştam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Uzbekistan it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: the most renowned hero among the Persians; hero of the Persian epic 'Shahnama'.
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 230(inferred from the name graph)
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 442
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 449
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ruştam itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #982 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 230 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 named Рустам, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tajikistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Рустам in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UZ Uzbekistan and 3 more and Rustam in PK Pakistan, PL Poland.
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(measured from records)
the most renowned hero among the Persians; hero of the Persian epic 'Shahnama'
Sources 3
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruştam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #105 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 947 | #68 | Рустам | 179 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #6 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 442 | listed | Рустам | 61 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #6 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 230 | listed | Рустам | 29 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #125 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 10K | Рустам | 58 |
| PK Pakistan | #305 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Rustam | 47 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #60 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 449 | — | Рустам | 30 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #100 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 895 | 206 | Рустам | 46 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #54 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 535 | — | Ruştam | 14 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,563 | 1 in 24K | 1.6K | Rustam | 26 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ruştam mean, and where does it come from?
- the most renowned hero among the Persians; hero of the Persian epic 'Shahnama' Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and A Dictionary of Muslim Names and 1 other source.
- Is Ruştam a male or female name?
- Ruştam is a male 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 Ruştam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 150 thousand people named Рустам in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ruştam?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,563 people named Ruştam in 2026, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Ruştam compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ruştam is the 105th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ru%C5%9FtamThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ruştam” — the 105th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.