Rasheed
Masculine · “rightly guided”
Rasheed is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 4,838 boys against 35 girls since 1880.
Rasheed is an Arabic word for someone whose judgment can be trusted — rightly guided, in the sense of knowing the good road and taking it. It is also one of the divine names, which gives it particular standing.
How old is the name Rasheed?
Rasheed first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Rasheed alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 4,700 people named Rasheed are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rasheed most popular?
Rasheed peaked in 1995, reaching #718 nationally. Today it ranks #3240, 2,522 places below that high. See the whole 1995 chart.
Where it comes from
From rashid to Rasheed
The story of Rasheed
The root is old in Arabic and carries both a practical sense — a person whose decisions can be relied on — and a spiritual one. It has been a personal name since the earliest Islamic period and was borne by an Abbasid caliph whose court is the setting for many of the tales in the Thousand and One Nights. The name is used from Morocco to Indonesia, and in American records it appears in Arabic, South Asian and African-American Muslim families alike.
Meaning
rightly guided, of sound judgment
From an Arabic root meaning to be on the right path or to have integrity of judgment; ar-Rashid is one of the names of God in Islam, and the human name carries the ordinary sense of the word.
How the name formed
- rashid
- Rasheed
Related forms: Rashid · Reşit · Rasheed · Rashidi
Pronouncing Rasheed
rah-SHEED
Two syllables with the stress on the long second. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Rasheed
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
- 1968
- Most boys named
- 1995220 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #718reached in 1995
- Change vs 2024
- +20.0%36 in 2025, from 30
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.
Rasheed in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rashid in Arabic — spelling variant
- Reşit in Turkish — same name
- Rasheed in Urdu — same name
- Rashidi in Swahili — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania, New York, Florida.
Rasheeds among us
people named Rasheed are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was named Rasheed
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Rasheed
- #3240
- Rasheed on the 2025 chart
- #876
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Rasheed went to 36 boys in 2025, but Rashed 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 — 2,364 places above the chart.
- Rasheed36
- Rashed16
About 1 boy in 32,848 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 47,447 for Rasheed 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 Brannon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Rasheed's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Brannon climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Brannon's path sketches the road Rasheed is walking now.
Rasheed 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
Where Rasheed is headed
Rasheed should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Rasheed beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Rasheed in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with an unbroken record from the earliest Islamic period.
- Recognized from North Africa to Southeast Asia in one spelling or another.
- Easy for an English speaker to say correctly on first sight.
- Rashid is the more usual transliteration and will be written for him.
- The Rash clip collides with an English word and is best headed off early.
- It is clearly marked as a Muslim name, which is a fact to know rather than a problem.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rasheeds are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,700 people named Rasheed are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Rasheed?
- Rasheed is the most-used spelling in US records — 36 of the 52 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Rashed.
- How popular is the name Rasheed in 2025?
- Rasheed ranks #3240 among US boy names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Rasheed?
- About 1 in every 47,447 US boys born in 2025 was named Rasheed — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Rasheed with classmates?
- Rasheed will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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