Rashed
Masculine · “Rightly guided”
Rāshid means rightly guided, and the word carries a specific Islamic weight: the first four caliphs are called al-Rāshidūn, the rightly guided ones, and the whole political vocabulary of early Islam runs through the same root.
How old is the name Rashed?
Rashed first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Rashed alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 500 people named Rashed are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rashed most popular?
Rashed peaked in 1977, reaching #3386 nationally. Today it ranks #5608, 2,222 places below that high. See the whole 1977 chart.
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Where it comes from
From rāshid to Rashed
The story of Rashed
The root runs through the Qur'an and through Islamic political thought: rushd is right guidance, and the four caliphs who followed Muhammad are the Rāshidūn. Harun al-Rashid ruled the Abbasid caliphate at its height from 786 and is the caliph of the Thousand and One Nights. The name is used everywhere Islam is. American records show Rashed and Rashid from the 1950s, and the American history divides between immigration from the Arab world and South Asia and the very substantial adoption of Arabic names by African American Muslims from the 1950s onward; Rashed peaks in 1977.
Meaning
Rightly guided, of sound judgment
From the Arabic root r-sh-d, to be on the right path or to have sound judgment, giving the active participle rāshid. The reading is settled. Al-Rashid, the guide, is one of the divine names, and the Rashidun caliphs take the plural of the same word. Rashed and Rashid are two transliterations of one name.
How the name formed
- rāshid
- Rashed
Related forms: راشد · راشد · Raşit · Rashidu
Pronouncing Rashed
RAH-shid
Two syllables, stress on the first. Arabic gives the first vowel length; English speakers often say ruh-SHEED with the weight at the back, which follows the Rasheed spelling.
Nicknames for Rashed
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
- 1975
- Most boys named
- 201532 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3386reached in 1977
- Change vs 2024
- +6.7%16 in 2025, from 15
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.
Rashed in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- راشد in Arabic — transliteration
- راشد in Urdu — same name
- Raşit in Turkish — spelling variant
- Rashidu in Hausa — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Rasheds among us
people named Rashed are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 106,755 born in 2025 was named Rashed
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Rashed
- #5608
- Rashed on the 2025 chart
- #876
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Rashed went to 16 boys in 2025, but Rasheed is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 52, which makes it the 876th most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,732 places above the chart.
- Rasheed36
- Rashed16
About 1 boy in 32,848 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 106,755 for Rashed 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 Allon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Rashed's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Allon climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Allon's path sketches the road Rashed is walking now.
Rashed 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
Rashed beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Rashed in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and carries real historical weight.
- It is recognized across the whole Muslim world.
- Six letters and two syllables travel easily.
- Rashid, Rashed and Rasheed are three spellings of one name with different stresses.
- The front clipping lands on an unpleasant English word.
- It reads as unmistakably Muslim, which some families weigh.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rasheds are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Rashed are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Rashed?
- Rashed is one of 2 recorded spellings. Rasheed is the more common one — 36 births in 2025 against 16 for Rashed.
- How popular is the name Rashed in 2025?
- Rashed ranks #5608 among US boy names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Rashed?
- About 1 in every 106,755 US boys born in 2025 was named Rashed — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Rashed with classmates?
- Rashed will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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