Rashaad
Rashaad was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,719 among boys’ names; 3,408 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,300 Americans named Rashaad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 19 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rashaad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rashaad?
#6,719 among boys’ names, 2025
Rashaad fell from #3,012 in 2015 to #6,719 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.3 to 7.6 per million.
140 babies in 1995, the peak
Rashaad peaked in 1995, when 140 boys were given it, #936 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,719 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,502 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,970 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,392 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 33 | #3,474 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,187 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,175 | 20.6 |
| 2018 | 40 | #2,983 | 22.0 |
| 2017 | 45 | #2,748 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,104 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,012 | 20.3 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,394 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,040 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,041 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 73 | #1,917 | 38.4 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,088 | 33.9 |
| 2009 | 83 | #1,805 | 41.8 |
| 2008 | 73 | #1,962 | 35.8 |
| 2007 | 81 | #1,808 | 39.0 |
| 2006 | 76 | #1,820 | 37.0 |
| 2005 | 52 | #2,285 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 72 | #1,754 | 36.3 |
| 2003 | 79 | #1,604 | 40.0 |
| 2002 | 87 | #1,466 | 44.8 |
| 2001 | 83 | #1,476 | 42.7 |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,383 | 46.3 |
| 1999 | 80 | #1,450 | 41.7 |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,352 | 46.0 |
| 1997 | 116 | #1,090 | 61.5 |
| 1996 | 108 | #1,108 | 57.0 |
| 1995 | 140 | #936 | 73.5 |
| 1994 | 120 | #1,010 | 62.1 |
| 1993 | 110 | #1,055 | 56.1 |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,124 | 48.1 |
| 1991 | 111 | #1,023 | 54.9 |
| 1990 | 126 | #915 | 61.3 |
| 1989 | 117 | #943 | 58.5 |
| 1988 | 117 | #881 | 61.1 |
| 1987 | 100 | #947 | 53.6 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,109 | 39.1 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,638 | 21.1 |
| 1984 | 49 | #1,359 | 27.1 |
| 1983 | 42 | #1,485 | 23.4 |
| 1982 | 60 | #1,207 | 33.1 |
| 1981 | 49 | #1,358 | 27.4 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,236 | 31.4 |
| 1979 | 41 | #1,485 | 23.8 |
| 1978 | 38 | #1,530 | 23.1 |
| 1977 | 34 | #1,635 | 20.7 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,038 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,342 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,816 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rashaad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rashaad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rashaad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rashaad, and how old are they?
3,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,408 Americans ever recorded as Rashaad. The median Rashaad alive today is 29 years old; half are between 19 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 2,376 people named Rashaad (9 women and girls, 2,367 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,161 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 | 199 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 464 |
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 Rashaad born?
The states with the most babies named Rashaad are Florida, New York and California, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 208 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 200 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 183 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 177 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 151 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 92 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 92 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 92 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 83 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 66 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Rashaad is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rashaad is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1974 it was given 1.5 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 Rashaad with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Rashaad?
Rashaad is a less common spelling of Rashad: SSA has recorded 3,408 Rashaad and 16,332 Rashad since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,233 babies since 1880, Rashaad is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 210 babies (6.2%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Rashaad
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 Rashaad and names like it
- Compare Rashaad and RashadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRashaad peaked in 1995.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rashaad since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Rashaad.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rashaad alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.