Rashaad
Masculine · “right guidance”
Rushd is a legal threshold in Islamic law, not just a virtue. It names the point at which a young person is judged to have sound enough judgment to manage their own property, and the name Rashad is built directly on it.
How old is the name Rashaad?
Rashaad first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Rashaad alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 3,300 people named Rashaad are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rashaad most popular?
Rashaad peaked in 1988, reaching #880 nationally. Today it ranks #6446, 5,566 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From rushd to Rashaad
The story of Rashaad
The root r-sh-d generates a large family of Arabic words and names, and its combination of moral and legal meaning is unusual: it names both being guided and being fit to decide. The Andalusian philosopher and jurist known in Europe as Averroes was Ibn Rushd, and his commentaries on Aristotle shaped medieval European thought. Rashad entered United States naming with the growth of African American Muslim communities in the mid-twentieth century, and the doubled-a spelling belongs to that period, marking the long Arabic vowel the way English marks vowel length. Rashaad's best year on file is 1988.
Meaning
right guidance, sound judgment, integrity
Arabic rashad, from the root r-sh-d, which covers right guidance, maturity and sound direction. The related noun rushd is used in the Quran for the maturity at which an orphan's property may be handed over, giving it a precise legal sense as well as a moral one. Rashid, rightly guided, is the same root and is one of the names of God, ar-Rashid.
How the name formed
- rushd
- rashad
- Rashaad
Related forms: Rashad · Resat · Rashad · Rashad
Pronouncing Rashaad
rah-SHAHD
Two syllables with the stress at the end and a long open a in the second. The doubled a is the English way of marking that length; Arabic marks it with a letter.
Nicknames for Rashaad
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 1995140 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #880reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- −60.6%13 in 2025, from 33
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Rashaad in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rashad in Arabic — transliteration
- Resat in Turkish — same name
- Rashad in Urdu — same name
- Rashad in Persian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, Illinois.
Rashaads among us
people named Rashaad are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 131,390 born in 2025 was named Rashaad
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Rashaad
- #6446
- Rashaad on the 2025 chart
- #820
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Rashaad went to 13 boys in 2025, but Rashad is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 108, which makes it the 820th most-given boys’ name of the year — 5,626 places above the chart.
- Rashad95
- Rashaad13
About 1 boy in 15,816 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 131,390 for Rashaad itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Vinson test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Rashaad's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Vinson climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Vinson's path sketches the road Rashaad is walking now.
Rashaad sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Rashaad beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Rashaad in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Arabic meaning with both a moral and a legal sense behind it.
- The doubled a tells an English reader to hold the vowel.
- End-stressed, which gives it a rhythm English names rarely have.
- Rashad is the standard transliteration and will be written instead.
- The front clip is an unfortunate English word.
- Rasheed, Rashid and Rashad are all from the same root and get confused.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rashaads are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,300 people named Rashaad are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Rashaad?
- Rashaad is one of 2 recorded spellings. Rashad is the more common one — 95 births in 2025 against 13 for Rashaad.
- How popular is the name Rashaad in 2025?
- Rashaad ranks #6446 among US boy names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Rashaad?
- About 1 in every 131,390 US boys born in 2025 was named Rashaad — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Rashaad with classmates?
- Rashaad will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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