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Rashaad

#6,719 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rashaad has been given to 3,408 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #6,719 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 140 recorded.

Babies named Rashaad, 2025

1 in 255,000

Rashaad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rashaad: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rashaad means

Rashaad is a given name.

The naming story behind Rashaad

Wikidata records Rashaad as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q55773329, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,408 boys were recorded with the name Rashaad between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 140 in 1995; its best national rank was #881 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,187 in 2020 to #6,719 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,012 in 2015 to #6,719 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Rashaad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,719
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rashaad 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 2025 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rashaad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rashaads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rashaad was born before 1997 — so the typical Rashaad is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,408
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (1,095).

Is Rashaad 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
−3,217
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,532
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,707
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.3%
Peak was 1995 (140)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#881
1988

Spellings of Rashaad

Rashaad is not the most common spelling — Rashad is, with 34.9% against Rashaad's 7.3%.

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.

Where Rashaad is used

Across 1910–2025, Rashaad was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 78,255 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 25,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 33,333
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
  8. 8New York1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rashaad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rashaad around the world

Where Rashaad 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
    1997–2017
    #3,996
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Rashaad

People whose public names include Rashaad, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rashaad in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rashaad. Linked forms have their own page here.

Rashad

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rashaad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,719
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,532
Best rank ever
#881
1988
Peak year
1995
140 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,408
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Rashaad

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

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Names with a curve like Rashaad

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rashaad, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Rashaad

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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