Rashan — boys' name

What the Data Says About Rashan

The Social Security Administration has registered 935 babies named Rashan between 1972 and 2022, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rashan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 51 babies received it in a single year. Rashan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 66 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rashan performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 256 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Rashan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 173 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Rashan in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rashan 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 935 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.