Rostam (name)

Rostam (Persian رستم Rostam [ rostam ] also Rustam ), is a male, Iranian first name.

It is probably a Zoroastrian, so neither a Muslim nor Arab name. The exact origin of the name is unclear, but the name in the Shahnameh comes before and was so well known in the Persian Empire. See Rostam ( Shahnameh ).

The meaning of the name is disputed. In the translation of the book of the kings of Helen Zimmern explains that the name was originated from an exclamation of Rostams mother Rudabeh after the painful birth and it therefore I am exempt called ( by the pain of childbirth ).

Today the name is no longer commonly used. The reason for this is partly that since the Islamic Revolution in Iran in the Iranian population rather Islamic names are given to the children as Old Persian.

In other languages

• Turkish: Rustem, Rustam, Rustem
• Russian Rustam ( Рустам )

Well-known bearers of the name

• Rostam Farrokhzad († 636), general in the Sassanid Empire
• Rustem Pasha (around 1500-1561 ), the Ottoman Grand Vizier
• Rostam Yaxin (1921-1993), Tatar composer
• Rustam Minnikhanov Nurgalijewitsch ( born 1957 ), Prime Minister of Tatarstan (Russian Republic)
• Rustam Kasimjanov (* 1979), Uzbek former world chess champion