Meaning not yet researched.
Rasheed: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #719 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #719 in 1995; #3,294 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rasheed in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,294 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #719.
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Rasheed: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #719 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 220 (1995).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Rasheed, making it the 3,294th most common boys’ name of the year, up 471 places from #3,765 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 30 boys named Rasheed in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #719, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 220. For comparison, it was #2,710 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rasheed in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 4,873 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,514 babies named Rasheed.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 371 US boys were named Rasheed; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rashid (2,566 babies since 1880), Rashad (16,332 babies since 1880) and Rashaad (3,408 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rachid and Rahsheed 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: Rachid (81), Rahsheed (12).
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 Rasheed 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 | — | — | 36 | #3,294 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,765 |
| 2023 | — | — | 24 | #4,434 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,598 |
| 2021 | — | — | 45 | #2,806 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,473 |
| 2019 | — | — | 38 | #3,138 |
| 2018 | — | — | 38 | #3,091 |
| 2017 | — | — | 48 | #2,624 |
| 2016 | — | — | 48 | #2,611 |
| 2015 | — | — | 45 | #2,710 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,740 |
| 2013 | — | — | 65 | #2,083 |
| 2012 | — | — | 48 | #2,585 |
| 2011 | — | — | 60 | #2,194 |
| 2010 | — | — | 65 | #2,090 |
| 2009 | — | — | 71 | #1,985 |
| 2008 | — | — | 80 | #1,837 |
| 2007 | — | — | 92 | #1,667 |
| 2006 | — | — | 92 | #1,591 |
| 2005 | — | — | 87 | #1,592 |
| 2004 | — | — | 142 | #1,122 |
| 2003 | — | — | 102 | #1,347 |
| 2002 | — | — | 139 | #1,084 |
| 2001 | — | — | 143 | #1,034 |
| 2000 | — | — | 161 | #948 |
| 1999 | — | — | 140 | #1,005 |
| 1998 | — | — | 144 | #966 |
| 1997 | — | — | 148 | #921 |
| 1996 | — | — | 180 | #800 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,169 | 220 | #719 |
| 1994 | — | — | 162 | #843 |
| 1993 | — | — | 143 | #899 |
| 1992 | — | — | 149 | #866 |
| 1991 | — | — | 100 | #1,092 |
| 1990 | — | — | 123 | #932 |
| 1989 | — | — | 89 | #1,127 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,385 | 60 | #1,336 |
| 1987 | — | — | 66 | #1,191 |
| 1986 | — | — | 98 | #923 |
| 1985 | — | — | 83 | #1,006 |
| 1984 | — | — | 91 | #924 |
| 1983 | — | — | 77 | #1,012 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,131 | 103 | #882 |
| 1981 | — | — | 76 | #1,053 |
| 1980 | — | — | 89 | #956 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,842 | 95 | #899 |
| 1978 | — | — | 93 | #893 |
| 1977 | — | — | 95 | #871 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,922 | 88 | #888 |
| 1975 | — | — | 90 | #878 |
| 1974 | — | — | 57 | #1,098 |
| 1973 | — | — | 54 | #1,121 |
| 1972 | — | — | 63 | #1,020 |
| 1971 | — | — | 24 | #1,852 |
| 1970 | — | — | 19 | #2,106 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,300 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,034 |
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).