Rasheen vs Rashida

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Rasheen Rashida

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

Of the 57 years in which either name was published, Rashida for 32 years and Rasheen for 25 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

• 1964–1994 Rashida ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1998–2024 Rasheen ahead, apart from 3 short spells

7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Rashidas alive today are over 44; half the Rasheens are over 39. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Rasheen New York (7.9×), Pennsylvania (4.7×), New Jersey (2.4×)
• Rashida the District of Columbia (10.5×), New York (3.3×), New Jersey (2.1×)

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

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