# Rasheed (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rasheed/  
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 | 4,873 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,838 / 35 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 117, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 10 | 5,922 |
| 1979 | 8 | 7,842 |
| 1982 | 6 | 10,131 |
| 1988 | 6 | 11,385 |
| 1995 | 5 | 15,169 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 60 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 48 | 2,585 |
| 2013 | 65 | 2,083 |
| 2014 | 44 | 2,740 |
| 2015 | 45 | 2,710 |
| 2016 | 48 | 2,611 |
| 2017 | 48 | 2,624 |
| 2018 | 38 | 3,091 |
| 2019 | 38 | 3,138 |
| 2020 | 32 | 3,473 |
| 2021 | 45 | 2,806 |
| 2022 | 32 | 3,598 |
| 2023 | 24 | 4,434 |
| 2024 | 30 | 3,765 |
| 2025 | 36 | 3,294 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | 2,538 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,158 |
| 2009 | 6 | 2,837 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Rasheed

- Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player (born 1974)
- Rasheed Sulaimon, American-Nigerian basketball player
- Rasheed Araeen, English artist (born 1935)

## 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.