Rasheem
Rasheem was last recorded in 2024, when 12 babies were given it; 1,317 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Rasheem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 26 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rasheem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rasheem?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,163, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1991, the peak
Rasheem peaked in 1991, when 51 boys were given it, #1,642 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12 | #7,163 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,768 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,165 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,571 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,515 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,498 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,434 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,488 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,373 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,627 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 17 | #5,339 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,502 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,876 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,461 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,746 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,587 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,382 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,571 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,421 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,224 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,982 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,146 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,037 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,247 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 28 | #3,009 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,299 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,484 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,655 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,011 | 22.1 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,162 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 47 | #1,812 | 24.0 |
| 1992 | 51 | #1,688 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 51 | #1,642 | 25.2 |
| 1990 | 46 | #1,745 | 22.4 |
| 1989 | 42 | #1,817 | 21.0 |
| 1988 | 38 | #1,807 | 19.9 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,159 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 32 | #1,906 | 17.4 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,957 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 41 | #1,524 | 22.7 |
| 1983 | 31 | #1,805 | 17.3 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,045 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 43 | #1,471 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 38 | #1,586 | 21.3 |
| 1979 | 49 | #1,336 | 28.5 |
| 1978 | 44 | #1,405 | 26.8 |
| 1977 | 33 | #1,661 | 20.1 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,917 | 16.6 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,269 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 24 | #1,921 | 15.3 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,295 | 11.5 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,398 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,592 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rasheem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rasheem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rasheem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rasheem, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,317 Americans ever recorded as Rasheem. The median Rasheem alive today is 35 years old; half are between 26 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 870 people named Rasheem (10 women and girls, 860 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,235 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 252 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 586 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 301 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 116 |
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 Rasheem born?
The states with the most babies named Rasheem are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 378 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 105 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New Jersey | 49 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 39 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Rasheem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rasheem is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 4.2 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 Rasheem with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rasheem
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 Rasheem and names like it
- Compare Rasheem and KristoferBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRasheem peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rasheem since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Rasheem.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rasheem alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.