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Rashaud vs Rasheed

American parents have registered 4,873 Rasheeds since 1880, against 1,310 Rashauds. Rasheed is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rashaud against Rasheed, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rashaud Rasheed

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

Rasheed has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Rashaud had 34 and Rasheed had 48.

Side by side

  Rashaud Rasheed
Total US births 1,3104,873
Most in one year 52225
Babies in 2025 1136
Estimated living today 1,3004,700
Median age today 2429
Peak year 19931995
Best rank 1,680th boys718th boys
Rank in 2025 7,194th3,240th
First recorded 19771968
Girls / boys 0 / 1,31035 / 4,838

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 Rasheeds alive today are over 29; half the Rashauds are over 24. That is 5 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: Rashaud and Rasheed.