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Rashida

#14,536 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Rashid

Rashida has been given to 3,005 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #14,536 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 338 recorded.

Babies named Rashida, 2025

1 in 553,000

Rashida over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rashida: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Rashid

Arabic

What Rashida means

Rashida is a feminine form of Rashid.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rashida is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ra.ˈʃiː.da/ and /ˈraː.ʃi.da/ for Rashida.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Rashida is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rashid and رَشِيدَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,999 girls were recorded with the name Rashida between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 338 in 1977; its best national rank was #536 in 1977.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #14,183 in 2015 to #14,536 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Rashida between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #7,682 in 1989.

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 Rashida?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,536
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rashida sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rashida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rashidas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rashida was born before 1981 — so the typical Rashida is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
42.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,999
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (1,266).

Is Rashida 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
+2,602
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−353
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.8%
Peak was 1977 (338)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#536
1977

Spellings of Rashida

Rashida is the most-used spelling, taking 13.7% of the 21,915 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Rashida is used

Across 1910–2025, Rashida was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 63,886 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 8,333
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 50,000

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

Rashida around the world

Where Rashida 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
    1996–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1988–1988
    #657
    in 1988

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 Rashida

People whose public names include Rashida, 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.

Rashida by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,536
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#536
1977
Peak year
1977
338 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,999
Count in 2025
6

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,682
1989
Peak year
1989
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rashida

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

RashellZenaidaZoraidaRashelRasheidaAdelaidaBriseidaAleidaRashedaRasheedaMeridaFloridaCandidaRashawnRashondaNereidaBetzaidaMaidaRashelleRashaZaidaAlidaBetsaidaFarida

Names with a curve like Rashida

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

KieshaShawandaKenyettaKeeshaDanyellNicholNakishaQianaMandieNikiaTanikaShalonda

Sibling names for Rashida

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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