Rashida

Where Rashida comes from

Transliteration of Arabic رَشِيدَة (rašīda).
— Wiktionary's entry for Rashida
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1964
    First appearance
    #6,767 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Rashida Tlaib born
    American politician and lawyer
  3. 1976
    Rashida Jones born
    American actress, writer, and producer
  4. 1977
    Peak, #535
    338 babies named Rashida — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1979
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #942.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Rashida Jones · American actress, writer, and producer, born 1976
  • Rashida Tlaib · American politician and lawyer, born 1976
  • Rashida Manjoo · South African professor of public law and social activist, born 1901
  • Rashida Bello · Nigerian philanthropist, born 1985
  • Rashida Strober · American playwright, activist

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.