Rashaun
Rashaun was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,499 among boys’ names; 3,314 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,200 Americans named Rashaun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rashaun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rashaun?
#9,499 among boys’ names, 2025
Rashaun fell from #3,288 in 2015 to #9,499 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.3 to 4.7 per million.
117 babies in 1998, the peak
Rashaun peaked in 1998, when 117 boys were given it, #1,098 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,499 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,013 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,576 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,379 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,284 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,387 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,603 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,966 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,878 | 22.7 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,923 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,288 | 18.3 |
| 2014 | 41 | #2,875 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,699 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,474 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,138 | 32.6 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,111 | 33.4 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,138 | 32.3 |
| 2008 | 54 | #2,398 | 26.5 |
| 2007 | 92 | #1,666 | 44.3 |
| 2006 | 85 | #1,679 | 41.4 |
| 2005 | 74 | #1,783 | 37.0 |
| 2004 | 76 | #1,693 | 38.3 |
| 2003 | 86 | #1,507 | 43.5 |
| 2002 | 84 | #1,501 | 43.3 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,299 | 52.0 |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,412 | 44.8 |
| 1999 | 78 | #1,472 | 40.6 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,098 | 61.2 |
| 1997 | 88 | #1,305 | 46.7 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,222 | 48.6 |
| 1995 | 105 | #1,114 | 55.2 |
| 1994 | 99 | #1,140 | 51.2 |
| 1993 | 105 | #1,092 | 53.5 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,300 | 37.5 |
| 1991 | 68 | #1,373 | 33.7 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,328 | 34.1 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,298 | 35.5 |
| 1988 | 83 | #1,094 | 43.4 |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,211 | 34.3 |
| 1986 | 68 | #1,148 | 36.9 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,205 | 33.5 |
| 1984 | 71 | #1,063 | 39.3 |
| 1983 | 48 | #1,356 | 26.8 |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,137 | 35.8 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,052 | 42.4 |
| 1980 | 62 | #1,162 | 34.8 |
| 1979 | 50 | #1,312 | 29.0 |
| 1978 | 75 | #1,004 | 45.7 |
| 1977 | 49 | #1,286 | 29.8 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,484 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,037 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,760 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,972 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rashaun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,314 Americans recorded as Rashaun, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rashaun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rashaun, and how old are they?
3,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,314 Americans ever recorded as Rashaun. The median Rashaun alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 2,315 people named Rashaun (190 women and girls, 2,125 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 312 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 359 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Rashaun born?
The states with the most babies named Rashaun are New York, Illinois and North Carolina, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 352 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 193 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 141 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 137 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 113 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 94 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 88 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 84 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 55 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Rashaun is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rashaun is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 1.6 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 Rashaun 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 10,969 babies since 1880, Rashaun is the most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 29 babies (28%), the second most given that year.
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 Rashaun
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 Rashaun and names like it
- Compare Rashaun and RashonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRashaun peaked in 1998.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rashaun since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Rashaun.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rashaun alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.