Girls' name · since 1973
Rashana
286 babies named Rashana in U.S. Social Security records since 1973, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #16,337 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 286
- born since 1973
- 1990s
- peak decade
Rashana sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 286 recorded since 1973.
Rashana has 286 recorded births among girls since 1973, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1973 to 2003.
- #16,337 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 286 born since 1973
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rashana ranks #16,337 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 286 born since 1973, peaking in the 1990s.
- #16,337 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 286
- born since 1973
- 1990s
- peak decade
Rashana's 286 recorded births place it above 77.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Rashana's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Rashana's SSA record in two at 1988 and the more recent half accounts for 49% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 51%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1987, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1980 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Rashana popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–2003
- Peak year (1980)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 31 years of records
Rashana by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (96 births, 34% of the file).
1990s was Rashana's strongest decade.
96 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 34% of all-time use.
Rashana births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
70 births
- 1980s
1980s
92 births
- 1990s
1990s
96 births
- 2000s 28
2000s
28 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 96 births (34% of all-time use).
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- Rashana's decade-level peak was the 1990s (96 total births); usage has since declined to 28 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Rashana: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~30 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1973–2003 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Rashana draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.