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Rashawn vs Rashun

American parents have registered 7,117 Rashawns since 1880, against 582 Rashuns. Rashawn is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rashawn against Rashun, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rashawn Rashun

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

Rashawn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1975, when Rashawn had 65 and Rashun had 18.

Side by side

  Rashawn Rashun
Total US births 7,117582
Most in one year 27324
Babies in 2025 36under 5
Estimated living today 6,900560
Median age today 3031
Peak year 19951998
Best rank 665th boys3,191st boys
Rank in 2025 3,240thunranked
First recorded 19661973
Girls / boys 709 / 6,40818 / 564

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.

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