Rahsaan
Rahsaan was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,620 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Rahsaan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 27 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rahsaan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rahsaan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,011, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
116 babies in 1973, the peak
Rahsaan peaked in 1973, when 116 boys were given it, #748 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #12,011 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,112 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,633 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,965 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,566 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,507 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,661 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,582 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,726 | 8.4 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,365 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #7,984 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,519 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,915 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,901 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,192 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,744 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,202 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,380 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,466 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,979 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,735 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,757 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,238 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,203 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,970 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,942 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,298 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 55 | #1,764 | 29.2 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,998 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,523 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,663 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,328 | 16.8 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,874 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,293 | 9.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,346 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,456 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,655 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,620 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 49 | #1,429 | 26.6 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,553 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,793 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 28 | #1,944 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,497 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 30 | #1,889 | 16.7 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,842 | 17.4 |
| 1979 | 39 | #1,525 | 22.7 |
| 1978 | 98 | #872 | 59.7 |
| 1977 | 79 | #967 | 48.1 |
| 1976 | 93 | #872 | 59.3 |
| 1975 | 80 | #921 | 51.2 |
| 1974 | 98 | #816 | 62.3 |
| 1973 | 116 | #748 | 74.4 |
| 1972 | 71 | #967 | 43.8 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,135 | 30.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,459 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rahsaan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rahsaan has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rahsaan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rahsaan, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,620 Americans ever recorded as Rahsaan. The median Rahsaan alive today is 43 years old; half are between 27 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 1,096 people named Rahsaan (24 women and girls, 1,072 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,501 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 698 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 339 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 356 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 126 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rahsaan born?
The states with the most babies named Rahsaan are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 216 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 116 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 69 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 65 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 65 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Maryland | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Rahsaan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rahsaan is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rahsaan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,264 babies since 1880, Rahsaan is the most given (50% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rahsaan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rahsaan and names like it
- Compare Rahsaan and RaseanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRahsaan peaked in 1973.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rahsaan since 1910.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Rahsaan.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Rahsaan alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.