Rashada — girls' name
172 babies named Rashada in U.S. Social Security records since 1975, with the highest year being 1975. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Rashada was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Rashada in 1975 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rashada
The Social Security Administration has registered 172 babies named Rashada between 1975 and 1993, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rashada currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1993. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rashada performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 82 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Rashada shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rashada in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rashada 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 172 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.
Rashada at a glance
Last recorded 1993Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Rashada popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1993–1975
- Peak year (1975)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 19 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1993.
172 total births across 19 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1975 with 16 births in a single year.
Rashada by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 82 births that decade — 48% of Rashada's all-time total
Rashada decade highlights
- Peak decade 82 births
- Runner-up 55 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Rashada's strongest decade
82 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Rashada by state
Where Rashada concentrates geographically — total births since 1975
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 2.9% |
5 of 172 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.9% 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, 1975–1993 (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.