Meaning not yet researched.
Rashaun: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,004 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,004 in 1978; #9,503 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rashaun in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,503 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #1,004.
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Rashaun: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,004 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 117 (1998).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Rashaun, making it the 9,503rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,486 places from #5,017 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 20 boys named Rashaun in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,004, reached in 1978. The most boys given the name in a single year was 117, in 1998. For comparison, it was #3,289 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rashaun in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 6 babies. In all, 3,314 US babies have been given the name, 5.5% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 952 babies named Rashaun.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 242 US boys were named Rashaun; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rashon (1,992 babies since 1880) and Rasheen (1,490 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rayshaun, Rashun and Rayshun are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rayshaun (1,022), Rashun (582), Rayshun (352), Raeshaun (147), Rashann (59), Raushan (33), Raishaun (22), Rayshan (22), Rahshan (11), Rashean (8), Raashan (5), Raushaun (5).
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 Rashaun 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 | — | — | 8 | #9,503 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #5,017 |
| 2023 | — | — | 23 | #4,580 |
| 2022 | — | — | 18 | #5,383 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,289 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,391 |
| 2019 | — | — | 22 | #4,607 |
| 2018 | — | — | 27 | #3,970 |
| 2017 | — | — | 42 | #2,879 |
| 2016 | — | — | 41 | #2,924 |
| 2015 | — | — | 35 | #3,289 |
| 2014 | — | — | 41 | #2,877 |
| 2013 | — | — | 44 | #2,701 |
| 2012 | — | — | 51 | #2,475 |
| 2011 | — | — | 62 | #2,139 |
| 2010 | — | — | 64 | #2,112 |
| 2009 | — | — | 64 | #2,139 |
| 2008 | — | — | 54 | #2,399 |
| 2007 | — | — | 92 | #1,666 |
| 2006 | — | — | 85 | #1,679 |
| 2005 | — | — | 74 | #1,786 |
| 2004 | — | — | 76 | #1,696 |
| 2003 | — | — | 86 | #1,510 |
| 2002 | — | — | 84 | #1,504 |
| 2001 | — | — | 101 | #1,303 |
| 2000 | — | — | 88 | #1,416 |
| 1999 | — | — | 78 | #1,475 |
| 1998 | — | — | 117 | #1,101 |
| 1997 | — | — | 88 | #1,308 |
| 1996 | — | — | 92 | #1,224 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,362 | 105 | #1,118 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,234 | 99 | #1,144 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,028 | 105 | #1,096 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,955 | 75 | #1,305 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,013 | 68 | #1,379 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,189 | 70 | #1,333 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,555 | 71 | #1,303 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,012 | 83 | #1,096 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,830 | 64 | #1,213 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,305 | 68 | #1,149 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,031 | 62 | #1,206 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,028 | 71 | #1,064 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,117 | 48 | #1,357 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,248 | 65 | #1,137 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,041 | 76 | #1,052 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,941 | 62 | #1,162 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,788 | 50 | #1,312 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,273 | 75 | #1,004 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,215 | 49 | #1,286 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,485 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #3,039 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,762 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,146 | 8 | #3,974 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,238 | — | — |
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).