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Rasheed

#3,293 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Rashid

Rasheed has been given to 4,873 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #3,293 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 220 recorded.

Babies named Rasheed, 2025

1 in 92,100

Rasheed over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rasheed: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Rashid

Arabic

What Rasheed means

Rasheed is a alternate transcription of Rashid.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rasheed → Rashid. The family’s meaning is “rightly guided”, recorded in the naming reference for Rashid.

Origin, language, and formation

Rasheed is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rashid.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,838 boys were recorded with the name Rasheed between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 220 in 1995; its best national rank was #716 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,471 in 2020 to #3,293 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,709 in 2015 to #3,293 in 2025.

In the United States, 35 girls were recorded with the name Rasheed between 1976 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1976; its best national rank was #5,920 in 1976.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rasheed?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 47,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,293
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rasheed 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rasheed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rasheeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rasheed was born before 1995 — so the typical Rasheed is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,838
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1990s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (1,509).

Is Rasheed 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
+470
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+178
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−584
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.4%
Peak was 1995 (220)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#716
1995

Spellings of Rasheed

Rasheed is not the most common spelling — Rashad is, with 37.1% against Rasheed's 11.0%.

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 Rasheed is used

Across 1910–2025, Rasheed was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 38,166 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 11,111
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  3. 3Florida1 in 25,000
  4. 4New York1 in 25,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 33,333
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7Maryland1 in 33,333
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 33,333

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

Rasheed around the world

Where Rasheed 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2001–2001
    #409
    in 2001
  • Canada
    1993–2022
    #2,335
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1949–1949
    #258
    in 1949

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

Notable people named Rasheed

People whose public names include Rasheed, 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.

Rasheed in other languages

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

RachidRashedRashid

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

Rasheed by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,293
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 178
Best rank ever
#716
1995
Peak year
1995
220 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,838
Count in 2025
36

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,920
1976
Peak year
1976
10 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rasheed

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

RashawnRashaadRashaunRashardRasheenRashaudRashidRashaanRashonRashadRashodRasheemShaheedWaleedRashedCreedRashanSaeedFareedRaseanKreedNaveedRasulRashun

Names with a curve like Rasheed

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

DemarcoGarettTreverJarettKelbyTarikDajuanMikalNicklausRashawnDejuanJade

Sibling names for Rasheed

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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