Rastegar

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ɾasteɡaɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Rastegar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.

  • SESweden1 in 196K(measured from records)
  • IRIran≈1 in 380Kfew records
  • DKDenmark1 in 451K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈850 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
151 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
RastegarLatin(measured from records)
РастегарCyrillic(measured from records)

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.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Rastegar 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 Rastegar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AF Afghanistan≈850 est.≈1 in 50K—Rastegar4
US United States3571 in 932K380Rastegar151
IR Iran≈240 est.≈1 in 384K—Rastegar41
GB United Kingdom≈79 est.≈1 in 874K39Rastegar45
DE Germany≈76 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Rastegar34
SE Sweden521 in 196K52Rastegar12
AT Austria≈52 est.≈1 in 177K—Rastegar17
DK Denmark131 in 451K13——

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Rastegar is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Iran

    Also written Rastégar

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iran

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Raştegar

26 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)
197019801990Kaveh Rastegar, b. 1975Alireza Rastegar, b. 1978Sara Rastegar, b. 1983

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)
FormalDear Rastegar,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Rastegar?
In Spanish /ɾasteɡaɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Rastegar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 845 people named Rastegar in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rastegar.
How common is the name Rastegar?
In the United States, the national register counted 357 people named Rastegar in 2010, about 1 in 932 thousand residents.

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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, “Rastegar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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