Rashid
Rashid was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,639 among boys’ names; 2,566 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,460 Americans named Rashid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 17 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rashid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rashid mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rashid is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Transliteration of Arabic رَشِيد (rašīd).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rashid?
#3,639 among boys’ names, 2025
Rashid fell from #3,347 in 2015 to #3,639 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 17.7 to 18.1 per million.
68 babies in 1996, the peak
Rashid peaked in 1996, when 68 boys were given it, #1,493 among boys’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,639 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,583 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,538 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,746 | 17.2 |
| 2021 | 34 | #3,399 | 19.4 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,784 | 16.2 |
| 2019 | 43 | #2,890 | 24.0 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,737 | 24.8 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,830 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,466 | 27.4 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,347 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,695 | 23.4 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,041 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,353 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,290 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,165 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,790 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 50 | #2,534 | 24.5 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,289 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,969 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,597 | 21.5 |
| 2004 | 46 | #2,441 | 23.2 |
| 2003 | 50 | #2,192 | 25.3 |
| 2002 | 42 | #2,416 | 21.6 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,138 | 25.2 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,005 | 26.0 |
| 1999 | 50 | #1,957 | 26.0 |
| 1998 | 49 | #1,980 | 25.6 |
| 1997 | 55 | #1,765 | 29.2 |
| 1996 | 68 | #1,493 | 35.9 |
| 1995 | 58 | #1,593 | 30.5 |
| 1994 | 65 | #1,469 | 33.6 |
| 1993 | 50 | #1,729 | 25.5 |
| 1992 | 54 | #1,627 | 27.0 |
| 1991 | 61 | #1,457 | 30.2 |
| 1990 | 54 | #1,549 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 54 | #1,527 | 27.0 |
| 1988 | 55 | #1,412 | 28.7 |
| 1987 | 40 | #1,701 | 21.4 |
| 1986 | 48 | #1,448 | 26.1 |
| 1985 | 50 | #1,384 | 27.1 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,141 | 35.5 |
| 1983 | 39 | #1,552 | 21.8 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,224 | 32.0 |
| 1981 | 35 | #1,684 | 19.5 |
| 1980 | 52 | #1,306 | 29.1 |
| 1979 | 55 | #1,251 | 31.9 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,280 | 30.5 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,204 | 32.9 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,118 | 37.0 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,189 | 32.7 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,228 | 29.9 |
| 1973 | 36 | #1,426 | 23.1 |
| 1972 | 31 | #1,556 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 33 | #1,518 | 18.7 |
| 1970 | 20 | #2,042 | 10.8 |
| 1969 | 18 | #2,034 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,419 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,935 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,398 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rashid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rashid has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rashid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rashid, and how old are they?
2,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,566 Americans ever recorded as Rashid. The median Rashid alive today is 30 years old; half are between 17 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 3,580 people named Rashid (29 women and girls, 3,551 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,306 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 479 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 811 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 682 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 483 |
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 Rashid born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,535 | 2.2× |
Where Rashid is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rashid is most over-represented in New York: since 1966 it was given 2.2 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 Rashid 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 30,233 babies since 1880, Rashid is the fourth most given (8.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 210 babies (15%), the third most given that year.
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 Rashid
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 Rashid and names like it
- Compare Rashid and RashadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRashid peaked in 1996.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rashid since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rashid: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Rashid.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rashid alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.