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Rashawn vs Rasheen

American parents have registered 7,117 Rashawns since 1880, against 1,490 Rasheens. Rashawn is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rashawn against Rasheen, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rashawn 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

Rashawn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1975, when Rashawn had 65 and Rasheen had 61.

Side by side

  Rashawn Rasheen
Total US births 7,1171,490
Most in one year 27373
Babies in 2025 365
Estimated living today 6,9001,400
Median age today 3039
Peak year 19951979
Best rank 665th boys1,089th boys
Rank in 2025 3,240th12,008th
First recorded 19661971
Girls / boys 709 / 6,40895 / 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 Rashawns are over 30. That is 9 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: Rashawn and Rasheen.