Rashad
Rashad was given to 95 boys in 2025, #1,722 among boys’ names; 16,332 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,700 Americans named Rashad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 19 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rashad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rashad mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rashad is “a male given name from Arabic, common in African American communities since the mid-1970s.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rashad?
#1,722 among boys’ names, 2025
Rashad fell from #943 in 2015 to #1,722 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.12 to 0.06 per 1,000.
682 babies in 1990, the peak
Rashad peaked in 1990, when 682 babies were given it (677 boys, #356 among boys’ names). The 95 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 | #1,722 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 92 | #1,790 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,621 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 140 | #1,344 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,405 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 148 | #1,252 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 202 | #1,031 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 195 | #1,044 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 210 | #982 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 185 | #1,071 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 223 | #943 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 234 | #919 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 244 | #870 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 262 | #835 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 320 | #715 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 396 | #622 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 407 | #617 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 379 | #648 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 439 | #584 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 348 | #660 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 219 | #843 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 264 | #723 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 296 | #671 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 341 | #599 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 302 | #630 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 281 | #646 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 265 | #655 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 343 | #570 | 0.18 |
| 1997 | 367 | #540 | 0.19 |
| 1996 | 418 | #499 | 0.22 |
| 1995 | 469 | #469 | 0.25 |
| 1994 | 531 | #429 | 0.27 |
| 1993 | 479 | #454 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 539 | #415 | 0.27 |
| 1991 | 605 | #376 | 0.30 |
| 1990 | 677 | #356 | 0.33 |
| 1989 | 661 | #348 | 0.33 |
| 1988 | 551 | #367 | 0.29 |
| 1987 | 608 | #336 | 0.33 |
| 1986 | 479 | #385 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 169 | #684 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 184 | #632 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 218 | #573 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 262 | #528 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 325 | #460 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 317 | #473 | 0.18 |
| 1979 | 347 | #430 | 0.20 |
| 1978 | 352 | #418 | 0.21 |
| 1977 | 311 | #455 | 0.19 |
| 1976 | 112 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 119 | #762 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 72 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,947 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rashad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rashad has been given almost only to boys: 85 girls in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rashad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rashad, and how old are they?
15,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 16,332 Americans ever recorded as Rashad. The median Rashad alive today is 31 years old; half are between 19 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 12,313 people named Rashad (71 women and girls, 12,242 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,239 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 1,510 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,910 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,190 |
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 Rashad born?
The states with the most babies named Rashad are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,539 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,178 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 11 | #839 | 2.7× |
| Louisiana | 8 | #581 | 2.3× |
| California | 6 | #2,403 | 0.5× |
Where Rashad is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rashad is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1973 it was given 3.7 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 Rashad 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,233 babies since 1880, Rashad is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 95 of their 210 babies (45%), again the most given.
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 Rashad
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 Rashad and names like it
- Compare Rashad and RasheedBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRashad peaked in 1990.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rashad since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rashad: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Rashad.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rashad alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.