Rasheed
Rasheed was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,293 among boys’ names; 4,873 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,680 Americans named Rasheed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rasheed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rasheed mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rasheed is “a male given name from Arabic, variant of Rashid.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rasheed?
#3,293 among boys’ names, 2025
Rasheed fell from #2,709 in 2015 to #3,293 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.5 to 21.1 per million.
225 babies in 1995, the peak
Rasheed peaked in 1995, when 225 babies were given it (220 boys, #716 among boys’ names). The 36 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,293 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,763 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,430 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,596 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,805 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,471 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,135 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,089 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,623 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,610 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,709 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,738 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,082 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,584 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,193 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,089 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 71 | #1,984 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 80 | #1,837 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 92 | #1,667 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 92 | #1,591 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 87 | #1,590 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 142 | #1,121 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 102 | #1,346 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 139 | #1,083 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 143 | #1,033 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 161 | #946 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 140 | #1,003 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 144 | #964 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 148 | #919 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 180 | #798 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 220 | #716 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 162 | #840 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 143 | #897 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 149 | #863 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 100 | #1,086 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 123 | #928 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 60 | #1,332 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 66 | #1,189 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 98 | #922 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 83 | #1,005 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 91 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 77 | #1,012 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 103 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 76 | #1,053 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 89 | #956 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 95 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 93 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 95 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 88 | #888 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 90 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 57 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 54 | #1,121 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,020 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,851 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 19 | #2,105 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,299 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,033 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rasheed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rasheed has been given almost only to boys: 35 girls in 58 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rasheed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rasheed, and how old are they?
4,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 4,873 Americans ever recorded as Rasheed. The median Rasheed alive today is 30 years old; half are between 22 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 4,264 people named Rasheed (50 women and girls, 4,214 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,544 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 724 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,750 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 521 |
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 Rasheed born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,787 | 1.0× |
| New York | 5 | #1,983 | 1.8× |
Where Rasheed is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rasheed is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1968 it was given 3.5 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 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 Rasheed 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 30,142 babies since 1880, Rasheed is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 210 babies (17%), again the second most given.
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 Rasheed
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 Rasheed and names like it
- Compare Rasheed and RashadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRasheed peaked in 1995.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rasheed since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Rasheed.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rasheed alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.