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Rasool

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Rasul

Rasool has been given to 120 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1977, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Rasool, 2017

1 in 596,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rasool: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Rasul

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rasool means

Rasool is a alternate transcription of Rasul.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rasool is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ra.ˈsuːl/ for Rasool.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rasool → Rasul. The family’s meaning is “prophet, messenger”, recorded in the naming reference for Rasul.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rasul.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 120 boys were recorded with the name Rasool between 1976 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,436 in 1977.

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.

How common is Rasool?

Rasool had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rasool 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rasool. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rasools were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rasool was born before 1980 — so the typical Rasool is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
120
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1970s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Rasool 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 1977 (19)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,436
1977

Spellings of Rasool

Rasool is not the most common spelling — Raoul is, with 45.1% against Rasool's 1.9%.

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 Rasool is used

Across 1910–2025, Rasool was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 931,760 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 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. Rasool has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rasool 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
#2,436
1977
Peak year
1977
19 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
120
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rasool

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

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Sibling names for Rasool

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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