Rashaun

Where Rashaun comes from

Rashaun 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. 1973
    First appearance
    #3,694 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1978
    Peak, #996
    75 babies named Rashaun — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1984
    Rashaun Freeman born
    American basketball player
  5. 1984
    Rashaun Broadus born
    American basketball player
  6. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,231.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Rashaun Broadus · American basketball player, born 1984
  • Rashaun Freeman · American basketball player, born 1984

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.