Rostam is a boy's name of Persian origin meaning “the man with the panther’s skin.” In England & Wales it was given to 3 boys in 2024.
Rostam at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Persian
Meaning
“the man with the panther’s skin”
About the name Rostam
Rostam belongs to the Persian tradition. Its meaning — “the man with the panther’s skin” — is the sense carried by its Persian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Rostam first appears in Social Security records in 2015. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #6443 in 2023, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 24 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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