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Rasul

#13,438 in 2025Boys' name

Prophet, messenger

Rasul has been given to 403 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #13,438 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Rasul, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rasul: meaning, origin, and history

Prophet, messenger

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rasul means

Rasul means “prophet, messenger”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rasul is used in Arabic and Avar.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ra.ˈsuːl/ and /ra.ˈsul/ for Rasul.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 403 boys were recorded with the name Rasul between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1994; its best national rank was #3,572 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,347 in 2020 to #13,438 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,373 in 2015 to #13,438 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.

How common is Rasul?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,438
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rasul 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rasul. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rasuls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rasul was born before 2003 — so the typical Rasul is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
403
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Choose a decade

2010s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (99).

Is Rasul 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
−6,707
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,091
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,065
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.7%
Peak was 1994 (14)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,572
1983

Spellings of Rasul

Rasul is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 90.1% against Rasul's 0.03%.

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 Rasul is used

Across 1910–2025, Rasul was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,208,538 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Rasul has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rasul around the world

Where Rasul 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
    2003–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rasul by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,438
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,091
Best rank ever
#3,572
1983
Peak year
1994
14 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
403
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Rasul

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

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Sibling names for Rasul

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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