Rashida
Rashida was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,536 among girls’ names; 3,005 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,890 Americans named Rashida and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 37 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rashida by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rashida mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rashida is “a female given name from Arabic.”
Transliteration of Arabic رَشِيدَة (rašīda).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rashida?
#14,536 among girls’ names, 2025
Rashida fell from #14,183 in 2015 to #14,536 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 3.7 per million.
338 babies in 1977, the peak
Rashida peaked in 1977, when 338 girls were given it, #536 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,536 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,138 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,956 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,434 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,877 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,183 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,097 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,670 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,068 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,306 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | #10,508 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,790 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,427 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,155 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,987 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,414 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,374 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,069 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,233 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,152 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,845 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,599 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,352 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,882 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,070 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,444 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,080 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 93 | #1,635 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,101 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 115 | #1,375 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 94 | #1,526 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 73 | #1,751 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 70 | #1,727 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 93 | #1,389 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,547 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,496 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 105 | #1,217 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 124 | #1,135 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 121 | #1,138 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 153 | #974 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 156 | #945 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 204 | #755 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 338 | #536 | 0.22 |
| 1976 | 202 | #728 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 144 | #908 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 101 | #1,148 | 0.07 |
| 1973 | 69 | #1,429 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,502 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,929 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,313 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,548 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rashida a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rashida has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rashida: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rashida, and how old are they?
2,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,005 Americans ever recorded as Rashida. The median Rashida alive today is 45 years old; half are between 37 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 3,989 people named Rashida (3,977 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,900 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,350 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,260 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 213 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 58 |
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 Rashida born?
The states with the most babies named Rashida are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 486 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| California | 262 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 211 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 135 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 113 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| District of Columbia | 89 | not ranked | 6.0× |
| Georgia | 88 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 82 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 75 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Rashida is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rashida is most over-represented in New York: since 1964 it was given 2.3 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 Rashida 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,235 babies since 1880, Rashida is the most given (42% 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 Rashida
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 Rashida and names like it
- Compare Rashida and RasheedaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRashida peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rashida since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rashida: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Rashida.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Rashida alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.