girls:
686 births since 1961
#5030 (12th percentile)
boys:
37 births since 1977
#4549 (1st percentile)
overall:
723 births since 1961
#7016 (9th percentile)
The name Rasha is the #7,016 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 723 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 9.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,030 (12.0% percentile) for all time with 686 births since 1961. For boys, it ranks #4,549 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 37 births since 1977.
Rasha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for girls and 1977 for boys). Birth data for Rasha is available in 55 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (55 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rasha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rasha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #801) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Rasha ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 30.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rasha reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #673) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rasha".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Rasha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.5% confident that Rasha is pronounced as RAH-shuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RA-shuh, at 18.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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