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Rashaun

#9,499 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rashaun has been given to 3,314 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #9,499 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 117 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Rashaun, 2025

1 in 414,000

Rashaun over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Rashaun over time

In 2025, Rashaun went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19692025

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.

Rashaun: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rashaun means

Rashaun is a given name.

The naming story behind Rashaun

Wikidata records Rashaun as a given name. The entity identifier is Q18393530, 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, 3,132 boys were recorded with the name Rashaun between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 117 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,004 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,387 in 2020 to #9,499 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,288 in 2015 to #9,499 in 2025.

In the United States, 182 girls were recorded with the name Rashaun between 1969 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1979; its best national rank was #4,787 in 1979.

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 Rashaun?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,499
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rashaun 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rashaun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rashauns were born

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

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
28.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,132
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (897).

Is Rashaun 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
−4,486
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,112
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,211
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.23×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.8%
Peak was 1998 (117)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,004
1978

Spellings of Rashaun

Rashaun is not the most common spelling — Shaun is, with 44.3% against Rashaun's 2.0%.

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 Rashaun is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Rashaun was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 82,252 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 33,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Rashaun has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Rashaun is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Rashaun was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,135,502 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Rashaun has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rashaun around the world

Where Rashaun 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
    1996–2015
    #3,908
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2001–2005
    #2,048
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #539
    in 1999

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

Notable people named Rashaun

People whose public names include Rashaun, 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.

Rashaun in other languages

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

RoshonRashawn

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

Rashaun by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,499
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,112
Best rank ever
#1,004
1978
Peak year
1998
117 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,132
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,787
1979
Peak year
1979
15 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
182
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rashaun

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

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Names with a curve like Rashaun

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

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Sibling names for Rashaun

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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