Rasheda
Rasheda was last recorded in 2001, when 6 babies were given it; 994 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rasheda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rasheda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,898, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
107 babies in 1976, the peak
Rasheda peaked in 1976, when 107 girls were given it, #1,121 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #14,898 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,269 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,110 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,331 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,463 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,399 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,971 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,627 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,932 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,902 | 14.4 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 35 | #3,202 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,862 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,573 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,828 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,524 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,740 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,494 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,636 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,406 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,151 | 28.8 |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,040 | 31.3 |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,807 | 37.4 |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,723 | 39.8 |
| 1977 | 98 | #1,239 | 63.9 |
| 1976 | 107 | #1,121 | 73.0 |
| 1975 | 87 | #1,288 | 59.7 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,701 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,114 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,077 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,864 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rasheda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rasheda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rasheda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rasheda, and how old are they?
An estimated 954 Americans named Rasheda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 38 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 984 people named Rasheda (982 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 964 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 Rasheda born?
The states with the most babies named Rasheda are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 105 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 61 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 46 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 23 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 16 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 7 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Rasheda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rasheda is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 1.5 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 girls’ 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 Rasheda 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,235 babies since 1880, Rasheda is the third most given (14% of them).
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 Rasheda
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 Rasheda and names like it
- Compare Rasheda and RashidaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRasheda peaked in 1976.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rasheda since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Rasheda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Rasheda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.