Rahshawn — boys' name
90 babies named Rahshawn in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 1991. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
38% of everyone ever named Rahshawn was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Rahshawn in 1991 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rahshawn
The Social Security Administration has registered 90 babies named Rahshawn between 1976 and 2009, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rahshawn currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rahshawn performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 34 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Rahshawn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rahshawn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rahshawn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 90 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Rahshawn at a glance
Last recorded 2009Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Rahshawn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–1976
- Peak year (1991)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 34 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2009.
90 total births across 34 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1991 with 10 births in a single year.
Rahshawn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 34 births that decade — 38% of Rahshawn's all-time total
Rahshawn decade highlights
- Peak decade 34 births
- Runner-up 22 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Rahshawn's strongest decade
34 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
Rahshawn by state
Where Rahshawn concentrates geographically — total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 5.6% |
5 of 90 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 5.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 5.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1976–2009 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.