# Rashad (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rashad/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16,332 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 16,247 / 85 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 89, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 8 | 7,839 |
| 1981 | 14 | 5,173 |
| 1983 | 5 | 11,546 |
| 1986 | 10 | 6,988 |
| 1987 | 12 | 6,227 |
| 1988 | 12 | 6,572 |
| 1989 | 6 | 11,951 |
| 1990 | 5 | 14,654 |
| 1991 | 7 | 11,188 |
| 1994 | 6 | 13,019 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 320 | 715 |
| 2012 | 262 | 835 |
| 2013 | 244 | 870 |
| 2014 | 234 | 919 |
| 2015 | 223 | 943 |
| 2016 | 185 | 1,071 |
| 2017 | 210 | 982 |
| 2018 | 195 | 1,044 |
| 2019 | 202 | 1,031 |
| 2020 | 148 | 1,252 |
| 2021 | 131 | 1,405 |
| 2022 | 140 | 1,344 |
| 2023 | 108 | 1,621 |
| 2024 | 92 | 1,790 |
| 2025 | 95 | 1,722 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | 2,189 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,208 |
| 2006 | 5 | 2,870 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Rashad

- Rashad al-Alimi, Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen since 2022
- Rashad Sadygov, association football player from Azerbaijan
- Rashad Evans, American mixed martial artist
- Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist (1935-1990)
- Rashad Vaughn, American basketball player (born 1996)
- Isaiah Rashad, American rapper from Tennessee
- Rashad McCants, American basketball player (born 1984)
- Rashad Sadiqov, Azerbaijani footballer
- Gafur Rashad Mirzazadeh, Azerbaijani educator, geographer, translator and editor
- Rashad Abdullayev, Azerbaijani footballer
- Rashad Wright, American basketball player (born 1982)
- Rashad Jennings, American football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.