Rashan
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rashan has been given to 1,001 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1979, with 51 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.
Babies named Rashan, 2022
1 in 484,000
Rashan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Rashan over time
In 2022, Rashan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Rashan?
Rashan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 484,000
- 7 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 249,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 335,262 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rashan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rashan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rashans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rashan was born before 1988 — so the typical Rashan is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 27.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 935
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (256).
Is Rashan 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1979 (51)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.0% average annual change
Spellings of Rashan
Rashan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 77.1% against Rashan's 0.12%.
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 Rashan is used
Across 1910–2025, Rashan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 180,898 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 25,000
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
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. Rashan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rashan around the world
Where Rashan 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 & Wales1996–2004#3,009in 2004
- South Australia1972–1972#479in 1972
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.
Rashan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Rashan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rashan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.