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Rashidi

Boys' name

To go the right way, to follow the right course, through رَاشِد

Rashidi has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 13 recorded.

Babies named Rashidi, 2024

1 in 669,000

Rashidi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rashidi: meaning, origin, and history

To go the right way, to follow the right course, through رَاشِد

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rashidi means

Rashidi belongs to the name family reached through Rashidi → رَاشِد. Its meaning is “to go the right way, to follow the right course”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rashidi is used in Swahili.

Rashidi comes through Arabic رَاشِد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include رَاشِد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 boys were recorded with the name Rashidi between 1975 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1978; its best national rank was #3,185 in 1978.

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 Rashidi?

Rashidi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rashidi 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rashidi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rashidis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rashidi was born before 1979 — so the typical Rashidi is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
95
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Rashidi 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
—
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 (13)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,185
1978

Spellings of Rashidi

Rashidi is not the most common spelling — Rashad is, with 79.5% against Rashidi's 0.46%.

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.

Rashidi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,185
1978
Peak year
1978
13 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rashidi

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

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Sibling names for Rashidi

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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