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Rashid

#3,639 in 2025Boys' name

Rightly guided

Rashid has been given to 2,566 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #3,639 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Rashid, 2025

1 in 107,000

Rashid over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rashid: meaning, origin, and history

Rightly guided

Arabic

What Rashid means

Rashid means “rightly guided”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rashid is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include رَشِيد and رَاشِد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,566 boys were recorded with the name Rashid between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 1996; its best national rank was #1,118 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,784 in 2020 to #3,639 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,347 in 2015 to #3,639 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rashid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,639
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rashid 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rashid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rashids were born

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

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
22.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,566
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 22.0% of all recorded uses (564).

Is Rashid 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
−56
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+145
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−292
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.91×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.6%
Peak was 1996 (68)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,118
1976

Spellings of Rashid

Rashid is not the most common spelling — Rashad is, with 33.0% against Rashid's 5.2%.

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 Rashid is used

Across 1910–2025, Rashid was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 111,648 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 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. Rashid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rashid around the world

Where Rashid 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
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2025
    #4,884
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Rashid

People whose public names include Rashid, 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.

Rashid in other languages

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

RachidRashedRasheedRashidiRaşitRaschid

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

Rashid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,639
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 145
Best rank ever
#1,118
1976
Peak year
1996
68 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,566
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Rashid

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

RashonRashardRashaunRashodRashaadRasheenRasheedRashaudRashaanRashedRashawnRashadRashanShahidRaseanRasulRasheemRashunZahidRasmusRasaanSahidRasheeMujahid

Names with a curve like Rashid

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

KhristopherJameelDimitriosHakimSharifKendricTarekKedrickRamoneAkilDamenRyon

Sibling names for Rashid

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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