Rashaun
Last seen for girls in 1995 at #8,766 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to boys 94.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 75 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,132since 1973
Rashaun over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,890 | 20 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,456 | 23 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,215 | 18 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,110 | 18 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,275 | 23 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,480 | 22 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,891 | 27 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,840 | 42 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,885 | 41 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,231 | 35 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,847 | 41 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,668 | 44 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,448 | 51 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,129 | 62 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,100 | 64 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,119 | 64 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,374 | 54 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,658 | 92 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,669 | 85 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,772 | 74 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,687 | 76 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,497 | 86 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,498 | 84 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,298 | 101 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,408 | 88 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,471 | 78 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,096 | 117 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,294 | 88 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,217 | 92 | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #1,107 | 105 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #1,140 | 99 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #1,091 | 105 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,301 | 75 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #1,368 | 68 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #1,326 | 70 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #1,294 | 71 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #1,092 | 83 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | #1,202 | 64 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #1,144 | 68 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #1,190 | 62 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #1,060 | 71 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | #1,347 | 48 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | #1,133 | 65 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #1,044 | 76 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #1,154 | 62 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | #1,304 | 50 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | #996 | 75 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #1,268 | 49 |
| 1976 | — | #2,417 | 18 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,558 | 9 | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #3,694 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rashaun! It came in at #3,694, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Rashaun is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Carolina#567 · 1 in 4,017
- Virginia#594 · 1 in 5,061
- North Carolina#834 · 1 in 8,377
- Florida#932 · 1 in 9,997
- Georgia#954 · 1 in 9,301
Best ever in a state: #299 in New Jersey, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #567 | 5 | 1 in 4,017 |
| Virginia | #594 | 8 | 1 in 5,061 |
| North Carolina | #834 | 6 | 1 in 8,377 |
| Florida | #932 | 9 | 1 in 9,997 |
| Georgia | #954 | 6 | 1 in 9,301 |
| Illinois | #1,077 | 6 | 1 in 13,070 |
| New York | #1,592 | 5 | 1 in 22,035 |
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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 Rashaun
- 4,020 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #8,910)
- 4,635 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #8,910)
- 5,679 spots since 2015 (#3,231 → #8,910)
- Biggest jump: 272 spots in 1978 (#1,268 → #996)
- Biggest drop: 308 spots in 1979 (#996 → #1,304)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1978 at #996 (75 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 37 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1978
- Highest: 1 in 16,336 boys born in 1998 were named Rashaun (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #996 in 1978, was only 1 in 21,891 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.6% of all boys named Rashaun (897) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1972, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 222 | #996 (1978) | #2,306 |
| 1980s | 670 | #1,044 (1981) | #1,166 |
| 1990s | 897 | #1,091 (1993) | #1,241 |
| 2000s | 804 | #1,298 (2001) | #1,698 |
| 2010s | 429 | #2,100 (2010) | #2,952 |
| 2020s | 110 | #4,275 (2020) | #5,476 |
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.
Rashaun in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 23,113 of them was named Rashaun, which outranked 88.0% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,483Rian85
- #1,483Tyren85
- #1,483Wallace85
- #1,498Rashaun84
- #1,498Arnulfo84
- #1,498Bradlee84
- #1,498Dakoda84
- #1,505Akshay83
- #1,505Angus83
- #1,505Avante83
Tied with 6 names at #1,498; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.