Rasheedah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rasheedah has been given to 930 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1978, with 112 recorded.
Babies named Rasheedah, 2004
1 in 637,000
Rasheedah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rasheedah?
Rasheedah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 637,000
- 6 of 3,820,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 306,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 441,326 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rasheedah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 441,326 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rasheedah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rasheedahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rasheedah was born before 1980 — so the typical Rasheedah is around 45 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 42.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 56.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 930
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 42.4% of all recorded uses (394).
Is Rasheedah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1978 (112)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.8% average annual change
Spellings of Rasheedah
Rasheedah is not the most common spelling — Rasheeda is, with 47.1% against Rasheedah's 25.6%.
Where Rasheedah is used
Across 1910–2025, Rasheedah was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 200,570 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Michigan1 in —
- 7Missouri1 in —
- 8New York1 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. Rasheedah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rasheedah around the world
Where Rasheedah 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.
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rasheedah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rasheedah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rasheedah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.