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Rasheen

Masculine · “rightly guided”

Rasheen is given to both — 1,395 boys and 95 girls since 1880. See other names given to both

1971high 1979
#12008 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare5 boys in 2025

Rasheen sits between an Arabic name and an American ending. Rashid means rightly guided, and it is one of the words used of God in Islamic tradition as well as the byname of the caliph who presides over the Thousand and One Nights. The -een ending is the American contribution: it fixes the long vowel for an English reader in a way that the standard transliterations leave open.

How old is the name Rasheen?

Rasheen first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Rasheen alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 1,300 people named Rasheen are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Rasheen most popular?

Rasheen peaked in 1977, reaching #1079 nationally. Today it ranks #12008, 10,929 places below that high. See the whole 1977 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Rasheen

Harun al-Rashid ruled the Abbasid caliphate at the height of Baghdad's power and became, through the stories collected as the Thousand and One Nights, one of the most widely known figures of the medieval world — his byname means the rightly guided, and it traveled with him. The name entered American use through two channels at once: Arab migration, and African American families choosing Arabic names in the second half of the twentieth century. Rasheen belongs to the second stream, where spellings were adapted freely to English reading habits rather than to transliteration convention.

Meaningscholars disagree

rightly guided

If the name is a form of Rashid, the meaning is well documented: from an Arabic root meaning to follow the right course, to be sensible and well directed. If it was built from the Ra- opening and the -sheen ending, on the pattern of the American names of its generation, then no meaning attaches. Both are plausible and the record does not choose.

How the name formed

  1. rashīd
  2. Rashid
  3. Rasheed
  4. Rasheen

Related forms: Rashīd · Rasheed · Reşit

Pronouncing Rasheen

ruh-SHEEN

Two syllables with the stress at the back, which the -een spelling makes unambiguous. That clarity is the whole point of writing it this way rather than as Rashin or Rashine.

Nicknames for Rasheen

Moderate

RashThe front of the name
SheenThe back half, which works as a standing short form and sounds nothing like the front
RaThe first syllable alone, used inside families
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 1971–20256734067519712025

US babies named Rasheen per year from 1971 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#10791970s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1971
Most boys named
197967 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1079reached in 1977
Change vs 2024
−16.7%5 in 2025, from 6
Rasheen sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1979, with 67 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Rasheen in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Rashīd in Arabic — related form
  • Rasheed in Urdu — related form
  • Reşit in Turkish — related form

Rasheens among us

1,300

people named Rasheen are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 341,615 born in 2025 was named Rasheen

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

The Shigeru test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Rasheen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shigeru climbed just as high around 1918, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shigeru's path sketches the road Rasheen is walking now.

40%chance Rasheen will feel dated by 2040
Rasheen, aligned on its peakShigeru· peak 1918not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak0 yrs+50 yrsShigeru · #2695Rasheen today
Rasheen today is about where Shigeru stood in 1966 — 48 years past a #1079-sized peak. Within 15 years, Shigeru had drifted out of the mainstream charts.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Rasheen 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

Rasheen beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Rasheen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Rasheenthis name5#12008Garfield5#12008Chas5#12008Lew5#12008Barney5#12008

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The ending removes any doubt about the vowel and the stress, which the standard spellings do not.
  • It shortens two ways, and the two short forms are completely unlike each other.
  • It sits close to a widely used and well-regarded Arabic name, so it is never entirely unfamiliar.
What to consider
  • Rasheen, Rashaan, Rashawn and Rasheem all occupy nearby ground and will be confused.
  • The connection to Rashid is invisible to most readers, so the name's dignity has to be explained rather than seen.
  • Nearly every child given this spelling is a boy, though the same ending appears on women's names.

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Frequently asked

How many Rasheens are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Rasheen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Rasheen in 2025?
Rasheen ranks #12008 among US boy names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Rasheen?
About 1 in every 341,615 US boys born in 2025 was named Rasheen — 5 in all.
Will my child share the name Rasheen with classmates?
Rasheen will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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