Rashan
Rashan was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 1,001 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rashan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rashan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,602, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
59 babies in 1979, the peak
Rashan peaked in 1979, when 59 babies were given it (51 boys, #1,299 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #10,602 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,630 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,677 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,815 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,667 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,665 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,474 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,466 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,825 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,752 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #9,397 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,472 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,720 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,702 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,937 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #6,017 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,913 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,027 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,118 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,325 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,332 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,986 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,943 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,071 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,695 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,553 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,942 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,433 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,218 | 10.7 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,799 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,294 | 9.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,136 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,393 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 24 | #2,490 | 12.5 |
| 1987 | 37 | #1,785 | 19.8 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,343 | 13.0 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,346 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,419 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,195 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,399 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 39 | #1,571 | 21.8 |
| 1980 | 34 | #1,720 | 19.1 |
| 1979 | 51 | #1,299 | 29.6 |
| 1978 | 39 | #1,500 | 23.8 |
| 1977 | 38 | #1,506 | 23.1 |
| 1976 | 37 | #1,491 | 23.6 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,984 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,341 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,914 | 14.8 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,952 | 7.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rashan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,001 Americans recorded as Rashan, 7% are girls and 93% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rashan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rashan, and how old are they?
An estimated 950 Americans named Rashan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 28 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 730 people named Rashan (81 women and girls, 649 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 948 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
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 Rashan born?
The states with the most babies named Rashan are New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 173 | not ranked | 6.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 79 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 56 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Rashan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rashan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1972 it was given 6.0 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 Rashan 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 11,423 babies since 1880, Rashan is the sixth most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 34 babies recorded by SSA was a Rashan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rashan
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 Rashan and names like it
- Compare Rashan and RashaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRashan peaked in 1979.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rashan since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Rashan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rashan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.