Rashida vs Rashun
American parents have registered 3,005 Rashidas since 1880, against 582 Rashuns. Rashida is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Rashida 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
Of the 56 years in which either name was published, Rashida for 48 years and Rashun for 8 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Rashida | Rashun | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,005 | 582 |
| Most in one year | 338 | 24 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 2,900 | 560 |
| Median age today | 44 | 31 |
| Peak year | 1977 | 1998 |
| Best rank | 535th girls | 3,191st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 13,208th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1964 | 1973 |
| Girls / boys | 2,999 / 6 | 18 / 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.
Which name is older
Half of the Rashidas alive today are over 44; half the Rashuns are over 31. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rashida and Rashun.