Parastoo is from the Persian پرستو (Parastū — swallow bird). A modern American baby name in the broader Persian-Iranian heritage aesthetic. Parastoo is one of the foundational Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian poetic heritage. The foundational Persian parastū (swallow) is foundational central to foundational Persian poetic bird-symbolism heritage — foundational symbol of foundational spring + freedom + homecoming + Nowruz (Persian New Year vernal equinox March 21) + foundational central to foundational Persian poetic tradition spanning foundational Hafez + Rumi + Saadi + Ferdowsi (foundational Shahnameh — Book of Kings foundational ~50,000-couplet epic c. 977-1010 CE). Notable bearer: Parastoo Forouhar (born 1962) — foundational Iranian-German visual artist + foundational political activist + foundational daughter of foundational Dariush + Parvaneh Forouhar foundational dissident leaders murdered in foundational Chain Murders of Iran 1998 + foundational central to foundational Iranian dissident art heritage + foundational Frankfurt-based since 1990s. Foundational Persian feminine name reflecting Persian poetic + cultural heritage.
Featured throughout Persian heritage.
Parastoo reduces to six.