Rashad
Last seen for girls in 1994 at #11,778 · #1,708 for boys in 2025, 95 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 608 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 16,247since 1973
Rashad over time
Rank among boys' names. Rashad has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,708 | 95 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,776 | 92 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,608 | 108 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,341 | 140 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,397 | 131 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,250 | 148 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,028 | 202 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,040 | 195 | |
| 2017 | — | #980 | 210 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,065 | 185 | |
| 2015 | — | #942 | 223 | |
| 2014 | — | #915 | 234 | |
| 2013 | — | #870 | 244 | |
| 2012 | — | #834 | 262 | |
| 2011 | — | #715 | 320 | |
| 2010 | — | #622 | 396 | |
| 2009 | — | #617 | 407 | |
| 2008 | — | #647 | 379 | |
| 2007 | — | #584 | 439 | |
| 2006 | — | #660 | 348 | |
| 2005 | — | #842 | 219 | |
| 2004 | — | #722 | 264 | |
| 2003 | — | #669 | 296 | |
| 2002 | — | #599 | 341 | |
| 2001 | — | #627 | 302 | |
| 2000 | — | #646 | 281 | |
| 1999 | — | #652 | 265 | |
| 1998 | — | #569 | 343 | |
| 1997 | — | #540 | 367 | |
| 1996 | — | #499 | 418 | |
| 1995 | — | #469 | 469 | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #428 | 531 |
| 1993 | — | #454 | 479 | |
| 1992 | — | #415 | 539 | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #376 | 605 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #355 | 677 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #348 | 661 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | #367 | 551 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | #336 | 608 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #385 | 479 |
| 1985 | — | #683 | 169 | |
| 1984 | — | #631 | 184 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #572 | 218 |
| 1982 | — | #527 | 262 | |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | #460 | 325 |
| 1980 | — | #470 | 317 | |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #430 | 347 |
| 1978 | — | #417 | 352 | |
| 1977 | — | #453 | 311 | |
| 1976 | — | #783 | 112 | |
| 1975 | — | #760 | 119 | |
| 1974 | — | #961 | 72 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rashad! It came in at #4,505, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Rashad is popular in 1974
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#536 · 1 in 7,145
- New Jersey#566 · 1 in 8,564
- Michigan#594 · 1 in 10,693
- Florida#689 · 1 in 10,131
- California#869 · 1 in 16,701
Best ever in a state: #91 in South Carolina, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #536 | 16 | 1 in 7,145 |
| New Jersey | #566 | 5 | 1 in 8,564 |
| Michigan | #594 | 6 | 1 in 10,693 |
| Florida | #689 | 5 | 1 in 10,131 |
| California | #869 | 9 | 1 in 16,701 |
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See more about Rashad
- 68 spots since 2024 (#1,776 → #1,708)
- 458 spots since 2020 (#1,250 → #1,708)
- 766 spots since 2015 (#942 → #1,708)
- Biggest jump: 3,544 spots in 1974 (#4,505 → #961)
- Biggest drop: 123 spots in 2016 (#942 → #1,065)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1987 at #336 (608 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1974–2015
- Highest: 1 in 3,027 boys born in 1989 were named Rashad (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,980 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #336 in 1987, was only 1 in 3,071 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.9% of all boys named Rashad (4,693) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,319 | #417 (1978) | #1,187 |
| 1980s | 3,774 | #336 (1987) | #478 |
| 1990s | 4,693 | #355 (1990) | #476 |
| 2000s | 3,276 | #584 (2007) | #661 |
| 2010s | 2,471 | #622 (2010) | #901 |
| 2020s | 714 | #1,250 (2020) | #1,513 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rashad in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 21,838 of them was named Rashad, which outranked 84.0% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #953Kelsey73
- #953Lenard73
- #953Marcellus73
- #961Rashad72
- #961Alfonzo72
- #961Antwon72
- #961Charley72
- #969Cristopher71
- #969Donavan71
- #969German71
Tied with 7 names at #961; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.