Rashell
Rashell was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,640 among girls’ names; 1,319 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Rashell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 22 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rashell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rashell?
#4,640 among girls’ names, 2025
Rashell rose from #10,007 in 2015 to #4,640 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 18.7 per million.
44 babies in 1990, the peak
Rashell peaked in 1990, when 44 girls were given it, #2,674 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,640 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,259 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,978 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,223 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,950 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,905 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,992 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,674 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,675 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,677 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,007 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,971 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,763 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,067 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,114 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,808 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,281 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,540 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,901 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,778 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,820 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,911 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,817 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,866 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,085 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,151 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,697 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,747 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,811 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,231 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,464 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,759 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,490 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,842 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,903 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,674 | 23.2 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,372 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,017 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,077 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,825 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,216 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,301 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,711 | 19.8 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,627 | 21.3 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,124 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,391 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,221 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,359 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,240 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,292 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,029 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,527 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,490 | 20.6 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,146 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,709 | 16.2 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,752 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,629 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,047 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,996 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,772 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,377 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,183 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,709 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,226 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,799 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rashell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rashell has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rashell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rashell, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,319 Americans ever recorded as Rashell. The median Rashell alive today is 35 years old; half are between 22 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,085 people named Rashell (1,078 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,203 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 26 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 295 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 461 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 322 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 171 |
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 Rashell born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,425 | 0.8× |
| New York | 5 | #2,349 | 0.3× |
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 Rashell 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,714 babies since 1880, Rashell is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 40 babies (75%), again the 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 Rashell
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 Rashell and names like it
- Compare Rashell and RashelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRashell peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rashell since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Rashell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rashell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.