Meaning not yet researched.
Rashaad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #882 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #882 in 1988; #6,723 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rashaad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,723 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #882.
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Rashaad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #882 in 1988 · most boys in one year: 140 (1995).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Rashaad, making it the 6,723rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,219 places from #3,504 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 33 boys named Rashaad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #882, reached in 1988. The most boys given the name in a single year was 140, in 1995. For comparison, it was #3,013 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rashaad in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 3,408 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,095 babies named Rashaad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 338 US boys were named Rashaad; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rashad (16,332 babies since 1880), Rasheed (4,873 babies since 1880) and Rashid (2,566 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Rashaad 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 13 | #6,723 |
| 2024 | — | — | 33 | #3,504 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,973 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,394 |
| 2021 | — | — | 33 | #3,477 |
| 2020 | — | — | 36 | #3,189 |
| 2019 | — | — | 37 | #3,178 |
| 2018 | — | — | 40 | #2,985 |
| 2017 | — | — | 45 | #2,749 |
| 2016 | — | — | 38 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #3,013 |
| 2014 | — | — | 54 | #2,396 |
| 2013 | — | — | 37 | #3,042 |
| 2012 | — | — | 68 | #2,042 |
| 2011 | — | — | 73 | #1,918 |
| 2010 | — | — | 65 | #2,089 |
| 2009 | — | — | 83 | #1,806 |
| 2008 | — | — | 73 | #1,962 |
| 2007 | — | — | 81 | #1,808 |
| 2006 | — | — | 76 | #1,820 |
| 2005 | — | — | 52 | #2,289 |
| 2004 | — | — | 72 | #1,757 |
| 2003 | — | — | 79 | #1,607 |
| 2002 | — | — | 87 | #1,469 |
| 2001 | — | — | 83 | #1,480 |
| 2000 | — | — | 91 | #1,387 |
| 1999 | — | — | 80 | #1,453 |
| 1998 | — | — | 88 | #1,355 |
| 1997 | — | — | 116 | #1,093 |
| 1996 | — | — | 108 | #1,110 |
| 1995 | — | — | 140 | #939 |
| 1994 | — | — | 120 | #1,014 |
| 1993 | — | — | 110 | #1,059 |
| 1992 | — | — | 96 | #1,128 |
| 1991 | — | — | 111 | #1,029 |
| 1990 | — | — | 126 | #919 |
| 1989 | — | — | 117 | #946 |
| 1988 | — | — | 117 | #882 |
| 1987 | — | — | 100 | #948 |
| 1986 | — | — | 72 | #1,110 |
| 1985 | — | — | 39 | #1,639 |
| 1984 | — | — | 49 | #1,360 |
| 1983 | — | — | 42 | #1,486 |
| 1982 | — | — | 60 | #1,208 |
| 1981 | — | — | 49 | #1,358 |
| 1980 | — | — | 56 | #1,236 |
| 1979 | — | — | 41 | #1,485 |
| 1978 | — | — | 38 | #1,530 |
| 1977 | — | — | 34 | #1,635 |
| 1976 | — | — | 24 | #2,039 |
| 1975 | — | — | 19 | #2,343 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,818 |
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).