Rasaan
Rasaan was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 218 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rasaan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rasaan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,684, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 2000, the peak
Rasaan peaked in 2000, when 16 boys were given it, #4,733 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #13,684 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,852 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,829 | 4.5 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,624 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,715 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,147 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,702 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,615 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #5,078 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,810 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 16 | #4,733 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,705 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,380 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,004 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,774 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,293 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,568 | 3.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,856 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,339 | 3.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,061 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,317 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,464 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,994 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,449 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,209 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,521 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,698 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,561 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rasaan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rasaan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rasaan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rasaan, and how old are they?
An estimated 209 Americans named Rasaan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 23 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 221 people named Rasaan (13 women and girls, 208 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 211 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Rasaan?
Rasaan is a less common spelling of Rahsaan: SSA has recorded 218 Rasaan and 1,620 Rahsaan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,323 babies since 1880, Rasaan is the fourth most given (6.6% 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 Rasaan
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 Rasaan and names like it
- Compare Rasaan and RahsaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRasaan peaked in 2000.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Rasaan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rasaan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.