Meaning not yet researched.
Rahsaan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #748 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #748 in 1973. No US babies were recorded with the name Rahsaan in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #748 in 1973.
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Rahsaan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #748 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 116 (1973).
Fewer than five US boys were named Rahsaan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #748, reached in 1973. That year also had the most boys given the name: 116. For comparison, it was #10,371 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rahsaan in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 9 babies. In all, 1,620 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 742 babies named Rahsaan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 97 US boys were named Rahsaan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 16.
Rarer spellings such as Rasean, Raysean and Rasaan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rasean (700), Raysean (538), Rasaan (218), Raesean (78), Rahsan (56), Rasaun (54), Razaan (36), Rasan (34), Rassan (29), Rahsean (27), Rahson (11), Rahsaun (10), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rahsaan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #12,016 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #8,117 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,638 |
| 2021 | — | — | 15 | #5,970 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,571 |
| 2019 | — | — | 11 | #7,512 |
| 2018 | — | — | 9 | #8,666 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,586 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,730 |
| 2015 | — | — | 7 | #10,371 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #7,990 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,524 |
| 2012 | — | — | 15 | #5,921 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,908 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,195 |
| 2009 | — | — | 16 | #5,748 |
| 2008 | — | — | 18 | #5,207 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,383 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,470 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,984 |
| 2004 | — | — | 18 | #4,740 |
| 2003 | — | — | 17 | #4,762 |
| 2002 | — | — | 28 | #3,242 |
| 2001 | — | — | 28 | #3,208 |
| 2000 | — | — | 30 | #2,976 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,947 |
| 1998 | — | — | 39 | #2,301 |
| 1997 | — | — | 55 | #1,767 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #3,003 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,529 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,668 |
| 1993 | — | — | 33 | #2,334 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,881 |
| 1991 | — | — | 19 | #3,299 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,352 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,462 |
| 1988 | — | — | 14 | #3,660 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,624 |
| 1986 | — | — | 49 | #1,430 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,556 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,794 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,945 |
| 1982 | — | — | 20 | #2,498 |
| 1981 | — | — | 30 | #1,890 |
| 1980 | — | — | 31 | #1,842 |
| 1979 | — | — | 39 | #1,525 |
| 1978 | — | — | 98 | #872 |
| 1977 | — | — | 79 | #967 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,915 | 93 | #872 |
| 1975 | — | — | 80 | #921 |
| 1974 | — | — | 98 | #816 |
| 1973 | — | — | 116 | #748 |
| 1972 | — | — | 71 | #967 |
| 1971 | — | — | 53 | #1,135 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,461 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).