Rashard
Masculine
The -ard ending was once a compliment and English turned it sour. It is the Germanic hard, meaning brave, that ends Richard and Bernard — but French took it as a suffix and used it to make drunkard, sluggard, coward, dullard and bastard.
How old is the name Rashard?
Rashard first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Rashard alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 2,600 people named Rashard are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rashard most popular?
Rashard peaked in 1987, reaching #1067 nationally. Today it ranks #7679, 6,612 places below that high. See the whole 1987 chart.
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Where it comes from
From hard to Rashard
Our story of Rashard
Two suffixes in English started as neutral or complimentary and ended as insults, and both came through French. One is -ard, from the Germanic element meaning brave: it entered French as a suffix on nouns and produced a run of derogatory words — coward, dullard, laggard, sluggard, drunkard, bastard, braggart — while remaining perfectly respectable inside the names it came from. The other is -rel, from a French diminutive, which gave scoundrel, wastrel and mongrel. Neither taints the names. Richard, Bernard, Howard and Leonard are unaffected, and so is a modern formation like Rashard, because names are read whole rather than parsed into pieces. That insulation is worth noticing: it is why a name can contain a syllable that would be offensive in a word and cause nobody any trouble. Rashard peaks in 1987.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No inherited meaning. Ra- is a created American prefix, probably drawn from Ray. The -ard ending here comes from names such as Richard and Bernard, where it is Germanic hard, brave or strong. Rashard may also be a respelling of Rashad, from Arabic rushd, right guidance. The record does not distinguish them.
How the name formed
- hard
- -ard
- Rashard
Related forms: Rashad · Rashaad
Pronouncing Rashard
ruh-SHARD
Two syllables, stress on the second, with the first reduced. Rashad, the related Arabic name, is ruh-SHAHD without the r, and the two are frequently confused.
Nicknames for Rashard
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
- 199497 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1067reached in 1987
- Change vs 2024
- +11.1%10 in 2025, from 9
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.
Rashard in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rashad in English — related form
- Rashaad in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, Georgia.
Rashards among us
people named Rashard are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 170,808 born in 2025 was named Rashard
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rodd test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Rashard's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rodd climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rodd's path sketches the road Rashard is walking now.
Rashard 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
Rashard beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Rashard in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The spelling maps cleanly onto the sound with nothing silent.
- Shad is a usable short form.
- The back-stress pattern is shared with many familiar names.
- Rashad is a separate Arabic name and is often substituted.
- The back clip produces the English word shard.
- There is no meaning to give behind the compound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rashards are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,600 people named Rashard are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Rashard in 2025?
- Rashard ranks #7679 among US boy names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Rashard?
- About 1 in every 170,808 US boys born in 2025 was named Rashard — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Rashard with classmates?
- Rashard will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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