Rüstem

given name · Latin script

Meaning: 1. Yiğit, kahraman. 2

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/røstˈæm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Rüstem is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 927(inferred from the name graph)
  • UZUzbekistan≈1 in 2.3K
  • AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 3.2K

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 Rüstem 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)

≈36,000 named Рустем, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
155 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 927 (inferred from the name graph)

Turkmenistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RüstemLatin(measured from records)
РустемCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Рустем in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UZ Uzbekistan, Ruştem in TM Turkmenistan and Rustem in XK Kosovo.

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)

recorded in Turkish

1. Yiğit, kahraman. 2. İran'ın efsanevi ünlü pehlivanı ve savaşçısı.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rüstem 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.

Where Rüstem is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#166≈36,000 est.≈1 in 3.9K#140Рустем155
TR Türkiye#607≈15,000 est.≈1 in 5.7K—Rüstem50
UZ Uzbekistan#751≈14,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Рустем15
KZ Kazakhstan#244≈11,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K5.1KРустем58
TM Turkmenistan#139≈6,000 est.≈1 in 927—Ruştem13
AZ Azerbaijan#398≈3,200 est.≈1 in 3.2KlistedRüstem22
XK Kosovo#692≈1,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K558Rustem2
AL Albania—7591 in 4.1K759——

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; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rüstem is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Russia, Türkiye, Belgium

    Also written Rustem, Rüştem

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, United States, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Rustem, Ruştem, Rustém

  • Greek given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan

    Also written Rustem

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Ru̇stem, Rustem, R̄ustem, Rustėm

  • Persian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan

    Languages: Persian, Tajik

    Also written Rustem, Рустем, Ruştem, Рустэм

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Damat Rüstem Paşa, b. 1500Röstäm Yäxin, b. 1921Igor Gamow, b. 1935Rustem Khamitov, b. 1954Rustem Shaymukhametov, b. 1960Rustem Dautov, b. 1965Rüstem Aslan, b. 1965Rustem Abdrashev, b. 1970Rustem Khuzin, b. 1972Rustem Umerov, b. 1982

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalMerhaba Rüstem,Hi Rüstem, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България

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

How do you pronounce Rüstem?
A machine transcription gives /røstˈæm/ (IPA) for Turkish.
What does the name Rüstem mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. Yiğit, kahraman. 2.
Is Rüstem a male or female name?
Rüstem 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.
What are other forms of the name Rüstem?
In the etymology graph, Rostam is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Rüstem have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Рустем in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Rüstem?
In Albania, the national register counted 759 people named Rüstem, about 1 in 4.1 thousand residents.
How common is Rüstem compared with other names?
In Russia, Rüstem is the 166th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Rüstem” — the 166th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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