Meaning not yet researched.
Rashida: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #536 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #536 in 1977; #14,540 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rashida in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,540 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #536.
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Rashida: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #536 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 338 (1977).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Rashida, making it the 14,540th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,603 places from #17,143 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 5 girls named Rashida in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #536, reached in 1977. That year also had the most girls given the name: 338. For comparison, it was #14,188 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rashida in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 3,005 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,266 babies named Rashida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 29 US girls were named Rashida; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rasheeda (1,723 babies since 1880) and Rasheda (994 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rashidah, Rashada and Rasheida 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: Rashidah (343), Rashada (172), Rasheida (68), Raashida (27), Rashieda (10), Rahshida (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 Rashida 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 | 6 | #14,540 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,143 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,961 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,440 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,883 | — | — |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,188 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,103 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,674 | — | — |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,074 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,311 | — | — |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,512 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,796 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,432 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,159 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,994 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,420 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,379 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,074 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,239 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,158 | — | — |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,851 | — | — |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,602 | — | — |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,355 | — | — |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,887 | — | — |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,075 | — | — |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,449 | — | — |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1992 | 93 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1990 | 115 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 1989 | 94 | #1,529 | 6 | #7,689 |
| 1988 | 73 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1987 | 70 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1986 | 93 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1983 | 105 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1982 | 124 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1981 | 121 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1980 | 153 | #974 | — | — |
| 1979 | 156 | #945 | — | — |
| 1978 | 204 | #755 | — | — |
| 1977 | 338 | #536 | — | — |
| 1976 | 202 | #728 | — | — |
| 1975 | 144 | #908 | — | — |
| 1974 | 101 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1973 | 69 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,502 | — | — |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,929 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,314 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,434 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,549 | — | — |
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).