girls:
35 births since 1976
#5681 (1st percentile)
boys:
4.8k births since 1968
#1741 (62nd percentile)
overall:
4.8k births since 1968
#3933 (49th percentile)
The name Rasheed is the #3,933 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,805 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 49.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,741 (62.0% percentile) for all time with 4,770 births since 1968. For girls, it ranks #5,681 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1976.
Rasheed first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for boys and 1976 for girls).
The name Rasheed has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rasheed reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 26.3% percentile (ranked #590) with 109 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 109 births per million (ranked 26.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1998, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rasheed ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 11.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rasheed reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #755) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rasheed".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Rasheed. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.7% confident that Rasheed is pronounced as ruh-SHEED, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is rah-SHEED, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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