In 2025, 95 US boys were named Rashad, making it the 1,722nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 68 places from #1,790 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 92 boys named Rashad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #336, reached in 1987. The most boys given the name in a single year was 677, in 1990. For comparison, it was #943 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rashad in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 6 babies. In all, 16,332 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,711 babies named Rashad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,506 US boys were named Rashad; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 210. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,980 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rashad ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #581 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rashaad (3,408 babies since 1880), Rasheed (4,873 babies since 1880) and Rashid (2,566 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rashaud, Rashod and Rashed are summarised on this page.