Rashaun
Last seen for girls in 1995 at #8,766 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to boys 94.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 75 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,132since 1973
Rashaun over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,890 | 20 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,456 | 23 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,215 | 18 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,110 | 18 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,275 | 23 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,480 | 22 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,891 | 27 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,840 | 42 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,885 | 41 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,231 | 35 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,847 | 41 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,668 | 44 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,448 | 51 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,129 | 62 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,100 | 64 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,119 | 64 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,374 | 54 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,658 | 92 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,669 | 85 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,772 | 74 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,687 | 76 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,497 | 86 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,498 | 84 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,298 | 101 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,408 | 88 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,471 | 78 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,096 | 117 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,294 | 88 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,217 | 92 | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #1,107 | 105 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #1,140 | 99 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #1,091 | 105 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #1,301 | 75 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #1,368 | 68 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #1,326 | 70 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #1,294 | 71 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #1,092 | 83 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | #1,202 | 64 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #1,144 | 68 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #1,190 | 62 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #1,060 | 71 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | #1,347 | 48 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | #1,133 | 65 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #1,044 | 76 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #1,154 | 62 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | #1,304 | 50 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | #996 | 75 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #1,268 | 49 |
| 1976 | — | #2,417 | 18 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,558 | 9 | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | #3,694 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rashaun! It came in at #3,694, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rashaun
- 4,020 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #8,910)
- 4,635 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #8,910)
- 5,679 spots since 2015 (#3,231 → #8,910)
- Biggest jump: 272 spots in 1978 (#1,268 → #996)
- Biggest drop: 308 spots in 1979 (#996 → #1,304)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1978 at #996 (75 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 37 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1978
- Highest: 1 in 16,336 boys born in 1998 were named Rashaun (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #996 in 1978, was only 1 in 21,891 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.6% of all boys named Rashaun (897) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1972, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 222 | #996 (1978) | #2,306 |
| 1980s | 670 | #1,044 (1981) | #1,166 |
| 1990s | 897 | #1,091 (1993) | #1,241 |
| 2000s | 804 | #1,298 (2001) | #1,698 |
| 2010s | 429 | #2,100 (2010) | #2,952 |
| 2020s | 110 | #4,275 (2020) | #5,476 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rashaun in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 153,186 of them was named Rashaun, which outranked 48.1% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,563Yaisa11
- #5,563Yaminah11
- #5,563Zipporah11
- #5,958Rashaun10
- #5,958Aaryn10
- #5,958Abraham10
- #5,958Adora10
- #6,385Abagail9
- #6,385Adenike9
- #6,385Aditi9
Tied with 426 names at #5,958; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 21,891 of them was named Rashaun, which outranked 85.3% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #989Gus76
- #989Kermit76
- #989Tremaine76
- #996Rashaun75
- #996Amit75
- #996Arnulfo75
- #996Bennett75
- #1,005Barton74
- #1,005Eddy74
- #1,005Jefferey74
Tied with 8 names at #996; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.