Rashaun — #4927 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Rashaun

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,123 babies named Rashaun between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rashaun currently holds the #4927 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 117 babies received it in a single year. Rashaun is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 182 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rashaun performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 897 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Rashaun shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 352 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Rashaun in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rashaun 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 3,123 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.