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Rashaad vs Rasheen

American parents have registered 3,408 Rashaads since 1880, against 1,490 Rasheens. Rashaad is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rashaad against Rasheen, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rashaad Rasheen

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 55 years in which either name was published, Rashaad for 44 years and Rasheen for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Rashaad Rasheen
Total US births 3,4081,490
Most in one year 14073
Babies in 2025 135
Estimated living today 3,3001,400
Median age today 2839
Peak year 19951979
Best rank 937th boys1,089th boys
Rank in 2025 6,446th12,008th
First recorded 19741971
Girls / boys 0 / 3,40895 / 1,395

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rasheens alive today are over 39; half the Rashaads are over 28. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rashaad and Rasheen.