Rayshad
Rayshad was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 213 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayshad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayshad?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,798, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2000, the peak
Rayshad peaked in 2000, when 13 boys were given it, #5,508 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #13,798 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,774 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,799 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,621 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,931 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,870 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,492 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,142 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,756 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,560 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #13,568 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,920 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,330 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,486 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,252 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,508 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,227 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,745 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,871 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,295 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,782 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,435 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,027 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,411 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,276 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,089 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,615 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,333 | 4.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,052 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayshad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayshad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rayshad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayshad, and how old are they?
An estimated 207 Americans named Rayshad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 172 people named Rayshad (0 women and girls, 172 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 209 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 25,360 babies since 1880, Rayshad is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 174 babies recorded by SSA was a Rayshad (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rayshad
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 Rayshad and names like it
- Compare Rayshad and RashadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRayshad peaked in 2000.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Rayshad.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayshad alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.