Rashon
Rashon was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,093 among boys’ names; 1,992 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,910 Americans named Rashon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 23 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rashon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rashon?
#8,093 among boys’ names, 2025
Rashon fell from #4,670 in 2015 to #8,093 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 5.9 per million.
75 babies in 1994, the peak
Rashon peaked in 1994, when 75 babies were given it (66 boys, #1,461 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,093 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,024 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,804 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,075 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,461 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,358 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,548 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,623 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,887 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,637 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,670 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,099 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,726 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,216 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,675 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,196 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,528 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,547 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,009 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,812 | 19.9 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,368 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 48 | #2,367 | 24.2 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,339 | 23.3 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,537 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,105 | 25.7 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,162 | 23.9 |
| 1999 | 49 | #1,983 | 25.5 |
| 1998 | 53 | #1,865 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 55 | #1,766 | 29.2 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,098 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 52 | #1,722 | 27.3 |
| 1994 | 66 | #1,461 | 34.2 |
| 1993 | 48 | #1,781 | 24.5 |
| 1992 | 50 | #1,717 | 25.0 |
| 1991 | 61 | #1,458 | 30.2 |
| 1990 | 61 | #1,444 | 29.7 |
| 1989 | 50 | #1,605 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 45 | #1,607 | 23.5 |
| 1987 | 48 | #1,499 | 25.7 |
| 1986 | 49 | #1,431 | 26.6 |
| 1985 | 41 | #1,585 | 22.2 |
| 1984 | 36 | #1,650 | 19.9 |
| 1983 | 40 | #1,529 | 22.3 |
| 1982 | 48 | #1,378 | 26.5 |
| 1981 | 40 | #1,539 | 22.3 |
| 1980 | 42 | #1,488 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 34 | #1,701 | 19.7 |
| 1978 | 38 | #1,531 | 23.1 |
| 1977 | 37 | #1,537 | 22.5 |
| 1976 | 35 | #1,564 | 22.3 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,585 | 21.1 |
| 1974 | 24 | #1,922 | 15.3 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,686 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,545 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,792 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,274 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rashon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,992 Americans recorded as Rashon, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rashon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rashon, and how old are they?
1,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,992 Americans ever recorded as Rashon. The median Rashon alive today is 32 years old; half are between 23 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,417 people named Rashon (143 women and girls, 1,274 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,873 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 304 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 793 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 623 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 190 |
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 Rashon born?
The states with the most babies named Rashon are New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, with 87% 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 Jersey | 386 | not ranked | 6.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 109 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 93 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Rashon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rashon is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1966 it was given 6.8 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 Rashon 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 10,753 babies since 1880, Rashon is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 34 babies (29%), the 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 Rashon
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 Rashon and names like it
- Compare Rashon and RashaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRashon peaked in 1994.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rashon since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Rashon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rashon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.