boys:
1.3k births since 1971
#3311 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1971
#6438 (17th percentile)
The name Rasheem is the #6,438 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,304 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 16.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,311 (27.8% percentile) for all time with 1,304 births since 1971.
Rasheem first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for boys in 1971). Birth data for Rasheem is available in 52 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Rasheem reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #644) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 27 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rasheem ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 18.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rasheem".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Rasheem. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.5% confident that Rasheem is pronounced as ruh-SHEEM, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is rah-SHEEM, at 10.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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