Rashad

Where Rashad comes from

From Arabic.
— Wiktionary's entry for Rashad
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1954
    Rashad al-Alimi born
    Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen since 2022
  2. 1973
    First appearance
    #4,505 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1982
    Rashad Sadygov born
    association football player from Azerbaijan
  4. 1987
    Peak, #336
    608 babies named Rashad — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #652.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic, common in African American communities since the mid-1970s.
Namesakes
  • Rashad al-Alimi · Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen since 2022, born 1954
  • Rashad Sadygov · association football player from Azerbaijan, born 1982
  • Rashad Evans · American mixed martial artist, born 1979
  • Rashad Khalifa · Egyptian-American biochemist, 1935–1990
  • Rashad Vaughn · American basketball player, born 1996

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.