How rare is the name Rashawn?

4,855 people in the United States have the first name Rashawn, about 1 in 62,210. It ranks #4,004 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

RASHAWN

#4,004

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,855
About
1 in 62,210
This common or more
83.4%
Who bears it

Of the 4,855 people named Rashawn, 86% reported their origin as Black, 7% as two or more races and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino. 89% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Rashawn peaked in 1993, when 273 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19662025
Peak year
1993
Births that year
273
In 2025*
36 ▼87%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 7,117 babies have been given the name since 1966. 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.

Rashawn by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,541. The largest share of babies named Rashawn, 42.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#9,04450
1970s#2,284761
1980s#1,7711,425
1990s#1,5412,335
2000s#2,5351,477
2010s#4,106798
2020s#6,015271
Generation X 1965–8012.9%
Millennials 1981–9642.4%
Generation Z 1997–1234.3%
2013 and later10.4%

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 Rashawn is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Rashawn has been most common in New Jersey (3.8×), South Carolina (3.4×), and New York (2.9×), and least common in Texas (0.2×).

4,459 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 Rashawn

#4,002 Nathen · 4,861#4,003 Manish · 4,856#4,005 Jacobo · 4,854#4,006 Enriqueta · 4,852

Spelled almost the same

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

#5,933 Rayshawn · 2,779#6,805 Rashaun · 2,315#9,704 Rashon · 1,417#13,083 Rasheen · 933#14,020 Rashaan · 848#15,428 Rayshaun · 746#15,682 Rashan · 730#20,881 Rasean · 491

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