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Rachid

Boys' name

To go the right way, to follow the right course, through رَاشِد

Rachid has been given to 81 babies in the U.S. since 1983. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Rachid, 2024

1 in 557,000

Rachid over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rachid: meaning, origin, and history

To go the right way, to follow the right course, through رَاشِد

Arabic and French

What Rachid means

Rachid belongs to the name family reached through Rachid → Rachid → رَاشِد. Its meaning is “to go the right way, to follow the right course”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from French Rachid, itself from Arabic رَاشِد (rāšid).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rachid (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Rachid is used in English, French and Occitan. Its origins include Arabic and French.

Rachid comes through French Rachid and Arabic رَاشِد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rashid, Rachid and رَاشِد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 81 boys were recorded with the name Rachid between 1983 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1992; its best national rank was #6,542 in 1992.

How common is Rachid?

Rachid had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rachid sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rachid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rachids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rachid was born before 2009 — so the typical Rachid is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
81
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Rachid rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (8)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
5.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,542
1992

Spellings of Rachid

Rachid is not the most common spelling — Rashad is, with 47.3% against Rachid's 0.24%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Rachid around the world

Where Rachid ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1936–2025
    #1,231
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2010
    #2,386
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rachid by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,542
1992
Peak year
1992
8 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
81
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rachid

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Rachid

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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