Girls' name · since 1975
Rashawna
Rashawna has 349 recorded births since 1975 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1996 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #14,666 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 349
- born since 1975
- 1990s
- peak decade
349 girls have been named Rashawna since 1975, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Rashawna has 349 recorded births among girls since 1975, 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 1975 to 2010.
- #14,666 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 349 born since 1975
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rashawna ranks #14,666 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 349 born since 1975, peaking in the 1990s.
- #14,666 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 349
- born since 1975
- 1990s
- peak decade
Rashawna's 349 recorded births place it above 79.71% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Rashawna's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Rashawna's full recorded timeline at 1992, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1976, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1996 peak of 26 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Rashawna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–2010
- Peak year (1996)
- 26
- Annual births at peak, across 36 years of records
Rashawna by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (112 births, 32% of the file).
1990s was Rashawna's strongest decade.
112 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 32% of all-time use.
Rashawna births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
45 births
- 1980s
1980s
107 births
- 1990s
1990s
112 births
- 2000s
2000s
77 births
- 2010s 8
2010s
8 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 112 births (32% of all-time use).
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- Rashawna's decade-level peak was the 1990s (112 total births); usage has since declined to 8 in the 2010s -- 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 Rashawna: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1996)
Similar record span (~35 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, 1975–2010 (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 Rashawna 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.