How rare is the name Rashad?

12,313 people in the United States have the first name Rashad, about 1 in 24,529. It ranks #2,163 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

RASHAD

#2,163

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,313
About
1 in 24,529
This common or more
78.8%
Who bears it

Of the 12,313 people named Rashad, 84.9% reported their origin as Black, 5.4% as White and 4.5% as two or more races. 99.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Rashad peaked in 1990, when 682 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19732025
Peak year
1990
Births that year
682
In 2025*
95 ▼86%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 16,332 babies have been given the name since 1973. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Rashad by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #971. The largest share of babies named Rashad, 44.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#1,6591,327
1980s#9713,833
1990s#9874,711
2000s#1,4383,276
2010s#1,9062,471
2020s#3,165714
Generation X 1965–8010.1%
Millennials 1981–9644.4%
Generation Z 1997–1232%
2013 and later13.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Rashad is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Rashad has been most common in District of Columbia (4.2×), Georgia (3.2×), and Florida (3×), and least common in Minnesota (0.14×).

14,442 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Rashad

#2,161 Salma · 12,322#2,162 Tyra · 12,317#2,164 Tam · 12,308#2,165 Jun · 12,305

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Rashad, most common first.

#4,962 Rashid · 3,580#6,680 Rashaad · 2,376#12,922 Raghad · 947#13,538 Rashaud · 889#15,714 Rashed · 728#16,892 Rashod · 661#37,614 Rashada · 207#42,079 Rayshad · 172

Also a last name

As a last name, Rashad ranks #26,376 of 156,621, with 975 people. See Rashad as a last name

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