Rasheed

Where Rasheed comes from

The dictionaries list Rasheed as a given name — a male given name from Arabic, variant of Rashid — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #3,673 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1974
    Rasheed Wallace born
    American basketball player
  3. 1995
    Peak, #718
    220 babies named Rasheed — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2000
    Rasheed Broadbell born
    Jamaican hurdler
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,341.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic, variant of Rashid.
Namesakes
  • Rasheed Wallace · American basketball player, born 1974
  • Rasheed Broadbell · Jamaican hurdler, born 2000
  • Rasheed Dwyer · Jamaican sprinter, born 1989
  • Rasheed Sulaimon · American-Nigerian basketball player, born 1994
  • Rasheed Araeen · English artist, born 1935

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.