Rasheed

Where Rasheed comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Rasheed.

  • Arabic
Rasheed through the years
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #3,673 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1974
    Rasheed Wallace born
    American basketball player
  3. 1995
    Peak, #718
    220 babies named Rasheed, the most in any year.
  4. 2000
    Rasheed Broadbell born
    Jamaican hurdler
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,341.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic, variant of Rashid.
Namesakes
  • Rasheed Wallace · American basketball player, born 1974
  • Rasheed Broadbell · Jamaican hurdler, born 2000
  • Rasheed Dwyer · Jamaican sprinter, born 1989
  • Rasheed Sulaimon · American-Nigerian basketball player, born 1994
  • Rasheed Araeen · English artist, born 1935

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.