Rashaunda — girls' name
253 babies named Rashaunda in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
56% of everyone ever named Rashaunda was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Rashaunda in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rashaunda
The Social Security Administration has registered 253 babies named Rashaunda between 1972 and 1996, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rashaunda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rashaunda performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 142 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Rashaunda shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rashaunda in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rashaunda 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 253 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.
Rashaunda at a glance
Last recorded 1996Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Rashaunda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–1972
- Peak year (1990)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1996.
253 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 20 births in a single year.
Rashaunda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 142 births that decade — 56% of Rashaunda's all-time total
Rashaunda decade highlights
- Peak decade 142 births
- Runner-up 65 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Rashaunda's strongest decade
142 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 56% of all-time use.
Rashaunda by state
Where Rashaunda concentrates geographically — total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 6 | 2.4% |
6 of 253 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 2.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1972–1996 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.