Rahsaan

Where Rahsaan comes from

Rahsaan hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #3,282 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Peak, #745
    116 babies named Rahsaan — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1974
    Rahsaan Patterson born
    American singer, actor and songwriter
  4. 1979
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,510.
  5. 1986
    Rahsaan Islam born
    American film actor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rahsaan Islam · American film actor, born 1986
  • Rahsaan Patterson · American singer, actor and songwriter, born 1974

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.