Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Rustam isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rustam through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 93
- 93 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,121 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +43%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,121 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (5). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 799 as a first name in 2020; 138 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rustam’s family of names
In Kumyk usage, Rustam is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Рустам.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rustam
- Rustam KasimdzhanovUzbekistani chess playerborn 1979
- Rustam MinnikhanovRussian politicianborn 1957
- Rustam OrujovAzerbaijani judokaborn 1991
- Rustam KazakovOlympic wrestlerborn 1947
- Rustam EmomaliTajik officialborn 1987
- Rustam IbrahimbekovSoviet and Azerbaijani writer, screenwriter and film director (1939–2022)
- Rustam AshurmatovUzbekistani association football playerborn 1996
- Rustam SaidovUzbekistani boxer (born 1978)
- Rustam SharipovUkrainian artistic gymnast (born 1971)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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