Entry № 7983 · Other origin

Parastoo Parastoo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pah-rah-STOO /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Swallow bird (symbol of homecoming)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "swallow bird (symbol of homecoming)".

Parastoo is from the Persian پرستو (Parastū — swallow bird). Parastoo is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian poetic heritage. 977-1010 CE).

Swallow bird (Persian).

The name in its native script.

پرستو
Transliteration
Parastū
Pronunciation
/ pɑː.rɑːˈstuː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Parastoo stands.

Parastoo does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Parastoos before her.

Real people
Parastoo Forouhar
Iranian-German visual artist + political activist + daughter of Forouhars murdered in Chain Murders of Iran 1998.
born 1962
In fiction
Parastoo
Persian swallow + Nowruz spring symbol.

Names connected to Parastoo.

The number behind Parastoo.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Parastoo reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.