In 2025, 31 US boys were named Rashid, making it the 3,640th most common boys’ name of the year, down 55 places from #3,585 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 32 boys named Rashid in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,118, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 68, in 1996. For comparison, it was #3,348 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rashid in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 2,566 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 564 babies named Rashid.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 371 US boys were named Rashid; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rasheed (4,873 babies since 1880), Rashad (16,332 babies since 1880) and Rashaad (3,408 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rashidi are summarised on this page.