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Rustam

#8,117 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Rostam

Rustam has been given to 93 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #8,117 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Rustam, 2025

1 in 332,000

Rustam over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rustam: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rostam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rustam means

Rustam is a form of Rostam.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rustam → Rostam → رستم. The family’s meaning is “injustice, tyranny”, recorded in Persian with the source elements setam.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rostam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 93 boys were recorded with the name Rustam between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,209 in 2023.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,819 in 2015 to #8,117 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 Rustam?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,117
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rustam 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rustam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rustams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rustam was born before 2019 — so the typical Rustam is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
93
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Rustam 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
+80
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,702
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2023 (12)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,209
2023

Spellings of Rustam

Rustam is not the most common spelling — Rusty is, with 60.1% against Rustam's 0.31%.

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 Rustam is used

Across 1910–2025, Rustam was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

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. Rustam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rustam around the world

Where Rustam 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
    2006–2023
    #3,524
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2009–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rustam by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,117
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,209
2023
Peak year
2023
12 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
93
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Rustam

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

RustenRustynRusbelRusellRuslanRushawnRushtonRustonRostamYotamRushankRushabhRushilRushiRushonGautamRussoRustanRustinRuskinRushdanRitamRushanRushun

Sibling names for Rustam

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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