Rashonda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Rashonda

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,499 babies named Rashonda between 1968 and 2006, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rashonda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 87 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rashonda performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 639 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Rashonda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 80 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Rashonda in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rashonda in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,499 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.