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Rostam

#10,467 in 2025Boys' name

Injustice, tyranny, through رستم

Rostam has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #10,467 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Rostam, 2025

1 in 474,000

Rostam over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rostam: meaning, origin, and history

Injustice, tyranny, through رستم

Persian

What Rostam means

Rostam belongs to the name family reached through Rostam → رستم. Its meaning is “injustice, tyranny”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rostam is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

Rostam comes through Persian رستم.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include رستم.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 31 boys were recorded with the name Rostam between 2015 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2023; its best national rank was #6,442 in 2023.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,647 in 2015 to #10,467 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rostam?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,467
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rostam sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rostam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rostams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rostam was born before 2023 — so the typical Rostam is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
83.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
31
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 83.9% of all recorded uses (26).

Is Rostam rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,180
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2023 (14)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,442
2023

Spellings of Rostam

Rostam is not the most common spelling — Roshan is, with 59.8% against Rostam's 1.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rostam is used

Across 1910–2025, Rostam was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,490,386 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rostam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rostam around the world

Where Rostam ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,654
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Rostam by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,467
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,442
2023
Peak year
2023
14 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Rostam

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Rostam

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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