girls:
3k births since 1964
#3173 (44th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1989
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1964
#4958 (36th percentile)
The name Rashida is the #4,958 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,994 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 35.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,173 (44.5% percentile) for all time with 2,988 births since 1964. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1989.
Rashida first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Rashida is available in 50 out of the 58 years between 1964 and 2021 (50 years for girls and 1 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 Rashida has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rashida reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 39.5% percentile (ranked #465) with 205 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 205 births per million (ranked 39.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Rashida reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rashida".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Rashida is pronounced as ruh-SHEE-duh, which has 3 syllables.
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