Arian Moayed explaining how an Iranian character ended up with the name Stewy.
"Iranians are always like well how did he get the name Stewy? And I was like, well how did Mohammad become Mike? His name was Sadegh and then they changed it – in middle school he was like 'I’m Stewy now.' He saw Family Guy and he was like 'I’m Stewy, I’m Stewy' or whatever. You know what I mean?"
Excerpt from Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff, Episode 137 with Arian Moayed - Oct 21, 2021