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Rashard

#8,092 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rashard has been given to 2,712 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #8,092 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 97 recorded.

Babies named Rashard, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rashard: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rashard means

Rashard is a given name.

The naming story behind Rashard

Wikidata records Rashard as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q7294804, 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, 2,712 boys were recorded with the name Rashard between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 97 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,073 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,182 in 2020 to #8,092 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,663 in 2015 to #8,092 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 Rashard?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,092
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rashard 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rashard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rashards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rashard was born before 1996 — so the typical Rashard is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,712
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (768).

Is Rashard 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
+726
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,910
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,429
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.3%
Peak was 1994 (97)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,073
1987

Spellings of Rashard

Rashard is not the most common spelling — Richard is, with 98.2% against Rashard's 0.10%.

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 Rashard is used

Across 1910–2025, Rashard was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 55,893 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 12,500
  2. 2Maryland1 in 20,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 33,333
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 33,333
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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. Rashard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rashard around the world

Where Rashard 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
    2004–2004
    #3,651
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Rashard

People whose public names include Rashard, 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.

Rashard by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,092
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,910
Best rank ever
#1,073
1987
Peak year
1994
97 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,712
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Rashard

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

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Names with a curve like Rashard

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

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Sibling names for Rashard

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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