Rasheedah
Feminine · “Rightly guided”
Rasheedah is one of several English spellings of an Arabic name, and the choice among them is not a matter of right and wrong — Arabic and English do not share an alphabet, and every way of bridging that gap is a compromise somebody made.
How old is the name Rasheedah?
Rasheedah first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Rasheedah alive today was born around 1980, making them about 45 years old. About 900 people named Rasheedah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rasheedah most popular?
Rasheedah peaked in 1978, reaching #1141 nationally. See the whole 1978 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Rashida to Rasheedah
The story of Rasheedah
The same word names one of the most famous objects in the world, and almost nobody knows it. A town on the western mouth of the Nile is called Rashid. French soldiers digging there found a slab of stone carrying one decree in three scripts, and Europe named it after the town as the French heard it: Rosetta. That stone unlocked the hieroglyphs, and the name of a place meaning rightly guided ended up attached to the idea of a key to any difficult code. The word's other great bearer is the philosopher Europe called Averroes — Ibn Rushd, son of right-guidance, whose commentaries on Aristotle were the route by which much of Greek philosophy came back into Latin Europe.
Meaning
Rightly guided, of sound judgment
The Arabic adjective is about guidance and good sense — a person who is on the right road and knows it. It is a settled reading, used of people and, in the masculine, as one of the traditional descriptions of God. The feminine form is the one behind every English spelling of this name.
How the name formed
- Rashida
- Rasheeda
- Rasheedah
Related forms: رشيدة · Reşide · Rashida
Pronouncing Rasheedah
rah-SHEE-duh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The final h in this spelling is not pronounced; it stands for a letter Arabic writes and English has no equivalent of.
Nicknames for Rasheedah
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 girls named
- 1978112 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1141reached in 1978
- Change vs 2001
- +20.0%6 in 2004, from 5
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.
Rasheedah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- رشيدة in Arabic — same name
- Reşide in Turkish — same name
- Rashida in Urdu — same name
Rasheedahs among us
people named Rasheedah are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Rasheedah sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, unhedged and genuinely good — a quality rather than an ornament.
- It is understood across the Arabic-speaking world and much of Asia and Africa without translation.
- The sounds are all available in English, so nothing about it is hard to say.
- Rashida, Rasheeda and Rashidah are all in circulation, and hers will be spelled as one of them by default.
- The silent final h invites questions and occasionally gets dropped by clerks.
- In American classrooms the stress often lands at the front, which is not where it belongs.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rasheedahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Rasheedah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Rasheedah in 2025?
- Rasheedah is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Rasheedah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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