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Rashaad vs Rashaud

American parents have registered 3,408 Rashaads since 1880, against 1,310 Rashauds. Rashaad is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rashaad against Rashaud, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rashaad Rashaud

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rashaad has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1974 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Rashaad had 13 and Rashaud had 11.

Side by side

  Rashaad Rashaud
Total US births 3,4081,310
Most in one year 14052
Babies in 2025 1311
Estimated living today 3,3001,300
Median age today 2824
Peak year 19951993
Best rank 937th boys1,680th boys
Rank in 2025 6,446th7,194th
First recorded 19741977
Girls / boys 0 / 3,4080 / 1,310

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rashaads alive today are over 28; half the Rashauds are over 24. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rashaad and Rashaud.