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Rushda

Girls' name

Feminine form of Rushd

Rushda has been given to 60 babies in the U.S. since 2013. 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 2023, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Rushda, 2024

1 in 557,000

Rushda over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rushda: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Rushd

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rushda means

Rushda is a feminine form of Rushd.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rushda is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈruʃ.daː/ for Rushda.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rushd.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 60 girls were recorded with the name Rushda between 2013 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2023; its best national rank was #9,486 in 2023.

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 Rushda?

Rushda 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 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rushda 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 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rushda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rushdas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rushda was born before 2019 — so the typical Rushda is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
60
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Rushda 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 2023 (11)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,486
2023

Spellings of Rushda

Rushda is not the most common spelling — Rashida is, with 29.8% against Rushda's 0.60%.

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.

Rushda around the world

Where Rushda 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
    2008–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Rushda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,486
2023
Peak year
2023
11 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
60
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rushda

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

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Sibling names for Rushda

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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