girls:
85 births since 1979
#5631 (1st percentile)
boys:
16.1k births since 1973
#916 (80th percentile)
overall:
16.1k births since 1973
#2040 (74th percentile)
The name Rashad is the #2,040 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,141 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 73.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #916 (80.0% percentile) for all time with 16,056 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,631 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 85 births since 1979.
Rashad first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1979 for girls).
The name Rashad has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rashad reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 56.7% percentile (ranked #328) with 315 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 315 births per million (ranked 56.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rashad ranks #808 for boys (11.3% percentile) with 59 births per million, which is 18.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rashad reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #768) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rashad".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Rashad. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.5% confident that Rashad is pronounced as ruh-SHAHD, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RA-shuhd, at 10.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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