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 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#117 · 1 in 611
- Virginia#250 · 1 in 2,033
- Georgia#259 · 1 in 1,830
- New Jersey#264 · 1 in 2,359
- Florida#266 · 1 in 1,908
Best ever in a state: #91 in South Carolina, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #117 | 13 | 1 in 611 |
| Virginia | #250 | 17 | 1 in 2,033 |
| Georgia | #259 | 22 | 1 in 1,830 |
| New Jersey | #264 | 18 | 1 in 2,359 |
| Florida | #266 | 33 | 1 in 1,908 |
| South Carolina | #288 | 10 | 1 in 2,111 |
| Pennsylvania | #296 | 20 | 1 in 3,870 |
| North Carolina | #311 | 13 | 1 in 2,910 |
| Maryland | #347 | 6 | 1 in 4,031 |
| Ohio | #351 | 16 | 1 in 5,040 |
| Wisconsin | #400 | 5 | 1 in 6,928 |
| Louisiana | #414 | 10 | 1 in 3,666 |
| Washington | #427 | 6 | 1 in 5,294 |
| Michigan | #428 | 10 | 1 in 6,561 |
| Indiana | #433 | 6 | 1 in 6,685 |
| Illinois | #443 | 17 | 1 in 4,978 |
| Missouri | #469 | 5 | 1 in 7,324 |
| California | #506 | 33 | 1 in 6,087 |
| New York | #539 | 16 | 1 in 7,096 |
| Texas | #632 | 17 | 1 in 8,102 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 119,147 of them was named Rashad, which outranked 59.3% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,746Yoana15
- #4,746Yolande15
- #4,746Zarinah15
- #4,963Rashad14
- #4,963Abi14
- #4,963Abril14
- #4,963Adrena14
- #5,254Adonica13
- #5,254Adreanna13
- #5,254Adri13
Tied with 290 names at #4,963; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 5,511 of them was named Rashad, which outranked 93.7% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.