girls:
18 births since 1975
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
564 births since 1973
#4022 (12th percentile)
overall:
582 births since 1973
#7157 (7th percentile)
The name Rashun is the #7,157 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 582 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 7.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,022 (12.2% percentile) for all time with 564 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 1975.
Rashun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Rashun is available in 47 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 3 years for girls). 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 Rashun has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rashun reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #776) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Rashun ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 32.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rashun reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #784) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rashun".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Rashun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.8% confident that Rashun is pronounced as ruh-SHUEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ruh-SHUHN, at 34.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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