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Rashard vs Rasheed

American parents have registered 4,873 Rasheeds since 1880, against 2,712 Rashards. Rasheed is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rashard against Rasheed, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rashard Rasheed

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 58 years in which either name was published, Rasheed for 54 years and Rashard for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Rashard Rasheed
Total US births 2,7124,873
Most in one year 97225
Babies in 2025 1036
Estimated living today 2,6004,700
Median age today 2929
Peak year 19941995
Best rank 1,153rd boys718th boys
Rank in 2025 7,679th3,240th
First recorded 19741968
Girls / boys 0 / 2,71235 / 4,838

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Rashard Rasheed
England and Wales 3117

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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