girls:
1.5k births since 1968
#4244 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1968
#6246 (19th percentile)
The name Rashonda is the #6,246 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,499 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 19.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,244 (25.7% percentile) for all time with 1,499 births since 1968.
Rashonda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (first recorded for girls in 1968). Birth data for Rashonda is available in 38 out of the 39 years between 1968 and 2006. 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 girls, Rashonda reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 10.2% percentile (ranked #726) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 45 births per million (ranked 10.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rashonda".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Rashonda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.8% confident that Rashonda is pronounced as ruh-SHAHN-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ruh-SHAWN-duh, at 16.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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