Rashon
#8,093 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rashon has been given to 1,992 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #8,093 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 66 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Rashon, 2025
1 in 332,000
Rashon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Rashon over time
In 2025, Rashon went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Rashon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,093
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rashon sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rashon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rashons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rashon was born before 1994 — so the typical Rashon is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 28.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,874
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (536).
Is Rashon 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
- +3,931
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,265
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,423
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.48×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 15.2%
- Peak was 1994 (66)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.9% average annual change
Spellings of Rashon
Rashon is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 59.6% against Rashon's 0.11%.
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 Rashon is used
Across 1910–2025, Rashon was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 137,928 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 12,500
- 2North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 3New York1 in 100,000
- 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Florida1 in —
- 7Georgia1 in —
- 8Illinois1 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. Rashon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rashon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Rashon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rashon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.