Hasti
A feminine Persian name meaning "the existing one" or "being".
Name Census estimates that about 70 living Americans carry the first name Hasti. The name is used almost exclusively for girls. The average person named Hasti today is around 10 years old, and the year with the single highest number of Hasti births was 2008 (9 babies).
This page is the full Name Census profile for Hasti. Below you will find a gender breakdown showing how the name splits between male and female registrations, a year-by-year popularity chart stretching back to 1880, decade-level totals, the top US states for this name, its meaning and etymology, and a set of frequently asked questions with data-backed answers.
For a British comparison, Name Census UK has a UK baby-name profile for Hasti with official rankings and popularity over time.
Key insights
- • Fewer than 100 living Americans are believed to carry the name Hasti. It is among the rarest names in the SSA records.
People living today
70
~ 1 in 4,896,491 Americans
Peak year
2008
9 babies that year
Average age
10
years old
2024 SSA rank
#12,599
Tracked since 2002
Census
Hasti in the 2020 Census
The 2020 Census recorded 247 people with the first name Hasti, which placed it at #33,475 in the published first-name tables. This is a snapshot of people who already had the name at the time of the Census.
The SSA sections elsewhere on this page answer a different question: how often parents gave the name to babies over time. The "people living today" figure on this page is different again: it is a current estimate built from SSA birth records and age-based survival rates, so the two numbers are not expected to match exactly.
2020 Census rank
#33,475
National first-name rank
People counted
247
247 in the published race/origin table
Per 100,000
0.1
People with this name in 2020
Largest reported group
White
74.9% of people with this name
Demographics
Ancestry and ethnicity for Hasti
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Hasti is White at 74.9%. The next largest groups are Asian/Pacific Islander (13.8%) and Two or More Races (10.9%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself.
The bar chart below shows how people with the first name Hasti described their own race and ethnicity on the 2020 Census form. The Census Bureau groups responses into six broad categories: White, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Two or More Races. When a category has too few respondents for a given name, the Bureau suppresses the figure to protect individual privacy, which is why some names show fewer than six slices.
Percentages are shown so the breakdown is easy to read across every published category. Because the 2020 Census first-name file also includes raw headcounts for each group, Name Census can show those alongside the percentages in the legend and hover tooltip.
Keep in mind that these are self-reported numbers. A first name does not determine a person's race or ethnicity, and the distribution you see here reflects the specific population who happened to carry the name Hasti at the time of the 2020 Census, not any inherent property of the name itself.
- White74.9% · 185
- Asian and Pacific Islander13.8% · 34
- Two or more races10.9% · 27
- Black or African American0.4% · 1
Popularity
Hasti: popularity over time
The SSA tracks Hasti from the 2000s through to the 2020s, spanning 3 decades of birth certificate data. The biggest single decade for the name was the 2020s, with 29 total registrations. The name continues to be given at rates close to its all-time high, suggesting it has not yet fallen out of fashion.
Babies born per year
Decades
Hasti by decade
The table below breaks the full SSA timeline into ten-year windows. Each row shows how many male and female babies were given the name Hasti during that decade, along with a combined total. This is useful for spotting eras where the name surged or retreated.
Origin
Meaning and history of Hasti
The name Hasti has its roots in the Persian language and culture. It is derived from the Old Persian word 'hasta', which means 'existing' or 'being'. The name can be traced back to ancient Persia, which was a historical region in modern-day Iran and parts of neighboring countries.
One of the earliest recorded instances of the name Hasti can be found in the Avesta, which is the primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism, an ancient Iranian religion. In the Avesta, Hasti is mentioned as one of the names of the Amesha Spentas, which are the six divine beings who assist Ahura Mazda, the supreme deity in Zoroastrianism.
Throughout history, there have been several notable individuals who have borne the name Hasti. One of the most famous was Hasti, a Persian princess who lived in the 7th century AD. She was the daughter of the Sasanian king Khosrau II and is mentioned in various historical accounts of the time.
Another prominent figure with the name Hasti was Hasti Girdhari Lal, an Indian historian and scholar who lived from 1887 to 1963. He was a renowned expert on the history and culture of Kashmir and authored several books on the subject.
In the world of literature, Hasti Raverty was a notable Afghan-born British writer and translator who lived from 1825 to 1892. She is best known for her translations of Afghan folklore and poetry from Pashto into English.
Hasti Movahed was an Iranian painter and artist who lived from 1945 to 2019. She was a prominent figure in the contemporary art scene in Iran and her works were exhibited in numerous galleries and museums around the world.
Lastly, Hasti Amir-Ghaffari was an Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist who lived from 1944 to 2015. She made significant contributions to the fields of graph theory and combinatorics and worked as a professor at various universities in the United States.
People
Hasti + last name combinations
How many people share a full name with Hasti as the first name? Click a combination below to see the estimate, or search any pairing.
Related
Other names starting with H
Other first names starting with H with a similar number of bearers.
FAQ
Hasti: questions and answers
How many people in the U.S. are named Hasti?
Name Census puts the figure at roughly 70 living Americans. We arrive at this by taking every SSA birth registration for Hasti going back to 1880 and adjusting each cohort for expected survival using CDC actuarial life tables. The result is an age-weighted living-bearer count, not a raw birth total. That works out to about 1 in 4,896,491 US residents.
Is Hasti a common name?
We classify Hasti as "Very Rare". It ranks above 59.3% of all first names in the SSA dataset by living bearers. Across the full history of the data, 71 babies have been registered with this name.
When was Hasti most popular?
The single biggest year for Hasti was 2008, when 9 babies received the name. The fact that the average living Hasti is about 10 years old gives you a rough sense of which era contributed the most bearers who are still alive today.
How common was Hasti in the 2020 Census?
The published 2020 Census first-name tables recorded 247 people with the name Hasti, or 0.08 per 100,000 residents. That placed it at #33,475 in the national Census ranking for first names.
Why is the Census count different from the living estimate?
Because they measure different things. The Census figure is a count of people who had the name Hasti in 2020. The living estimate aims to answer a current question instead: how many people with the name are alive today, based on SSA birth records and age-based survival rates. Since one number is a 2020 snapshot and the other is a present-day estimate, they are not expected to be identical.
What does the Census say about the gender split for Hasti?
In the 2020 Census sex table, Hasti leans strongly female. 246 people counted with this name were female (98.4%), compared with 4 male bearers (1.6%). The Census view is a snapshot of people living with the name in 2020, while the SSA section above tracks births across time.
What does the Census say about the background of people named Hasti?
In the 2020 Census race and Hispanic-origin table, the largest reported group for people named Hasti is White at 74.9%. The next largest groups are Asian/Pacific Islander (13.8%) and Two or More Races (10.9%). These figures describe the people who had the name in 2020, not any inherent property of the name itself. The percentages in the chart above come from self-reported race and Hispanic-origin responses in the 2020 Census.
Which group reports the name Hasti most often in the Census?
White is the largest reported group for people named Hasti in the 2020 Census, accounting for 74.9% (185 people in the published table).
Why can the Census sex total and race total differ slightly?
The Census Bureau published separate 2020 tables for sex and for race/Hispanic origin, and the released figures can differ slightly because of privacy protection in the public files. That is why this page treats the gender section and the race/origin section as two related snapshots instead of forcing them into one identical total.
Does every first name have Census demographic data?
No. The public Census first-name release only includes names that met the Bureau's publication rules, so many rarer names in the SSA files have no Census demographic snapshot. When that happens, the SSA trend, gender history, and state sections still appear, but the 2020 Census demographic sections are omitted.
What does the SSA popularity chart show?
The chart tracks births, not the number of people alive with the name today. Each point shows how many babies were given the name Hasti in that year. That makes it useful for spotting when the name rose, peaked, or faded.
Is Hasti a female name?
Yes, 100.0% of people registered as Hasti in the SSA data are female. You can see the full per-sex comparison in the gender distribution section above, which includes the latest year rank, birth count, and peak year for each sex.
Is Hasti still being used today?
Yes. The SSA still recorded Hasti in 2024, and the page above shows its latest-year rank where available. A name can be well past its peak and still remain in steady use, especially if it built up a large population over earlier decades.
Why can a name have a lot of living bearers even if it is not trendy now?
Because living-bearer counts and current baby-name popularity measure different things. A name like Hasti can build up a very large population over many decades, even if fewer parents are choosing it now than they did at its peak.
Where does this data come from?
First-name figures come from the Social Security Administration's national baby name files, which cover every name on a birth certificate from 1880 to 2024. Living-bearer estimates layer in CDC actuarial life tables broken out by sex to account for mortality. The population baseline (342,754,338) is the Census Bureau's latest national estimate. You can read the full calculation on our methodology page.
How many people share the name Hasti?
Want to know how many people have the name Hasti? HowManyOfMe.org, our sister site, puts the living-bearer count front and centre.