Rasheeda
Rasheeda was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,723 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Rasheeda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 35 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rasheeda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rasheeda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,124, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
138 babies in 1979, the peak
Rasheeda peaked in 1979, when 138 girls were given it, #1,023 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #17,124 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,486 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,876 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,749 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,728 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,899 | 4.6 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,195 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,507 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,789 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,127 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 8 | #13,333 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,159 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,634 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,125 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,754 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,109 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,162 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,466 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,096 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,649 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,559 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,917 | 23.0 |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,339 | 30.4 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,717 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 66 | #2,063 | 35.2 |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,474 | 55.8 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,236 | 29.3 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,394 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,384 | 25.3 |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,070 | 30.3 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,993 | 32.0 |
| 1984 | 51 | #2,012 | 30.3 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,877 | 33.5 |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,549 | 45.5 |
| 1981 | 138 | #1,041 | 82.7 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,597 | 44.0 |
| 1979 | 138 | #1,023 | 86.0 |
| 1978 | 110 | #1,158 | 71.8 |
| 1977 | 95 | #1,264 | 62.0 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,327 | 24.6 |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,897 | 32.9 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,285 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,911 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,400 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,419 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,960 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rasheeda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rasheeda has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 46 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rasheeda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rasheeda, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,723 Americans ever recorded as Rasheeda. The median Rasheeda alive today is 42 years old; half are between 35 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,620 people named Rasheeda (1,614 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,675 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 536 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 908 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 178 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 42 |
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 Rasheeda born?
The states with the most babies named Rasheeda are Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 315 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| New York | 206 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New Jersey | 189 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| California | 43 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 43 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 13 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| South Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Rasheeda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rasheeda is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1970 it was given 3.9 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 Rasheeda 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,892 babies since 1880, Rasheeda is the second most given (25% 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 Rasheeda
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 Rasheeda and names like it
- Compare Rasheeda and RashidaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRasheeda peaked in 1979.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rasheeda since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Rasheeda.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rasheeda alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.