How Many People Are Named Rashaun?

3,205

people named Rashaun are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 106,641 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,314 babies named Rashaun in Social Security records from 1969 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,949

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,849

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Peak Year

1998

117 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: African American (Rare)
Pronunciation: rə-SHAWN, ray-SHAWN
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Combination of the prefix Ra with the name SHAUN.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Rashaun in English. Counting Rashaun and these spellings together, about 10,078 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
5.5%
Male
94.5%

Of the babies given the name Rashaun, 5.5% were girls and 94.5% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Rashaun fell from 15.6% in the 1970s to 0% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Rashaun alive today is about 28 years old, and 53% are under 30. Half of them were between 19 and 37 in 2025.

Under 30 1,692
52.8%
30 to 59 1,513
47.2%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Rashaun first appears in the records in 1969 and was given most often in 1998, to 117 babies. In 2025, 8 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1969 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Rashaun has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,004, in 1978. In 2025 it ranked #9,499.

Boys
Rank in 2025#9,499
Best rank#1,004 (1978)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,234 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Rashaun alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Rashaun were born in New York than in any other state: about 337 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rashaun was given 3.6 times as often in North Carolina, 3.6 times in New York and 3.4 times in New Jersey.

New York 337
Illinois 186
North Carolina 136
New Jersey 130
Georgia 110
Ohio 90
Florida 86
Virginia 82
Pennsylvania 70
California 53
South Carolina 50
Texas 25
Michigan 16
Missouri 12
Maryland 10
Massachusetts 6
Connecticut 5
Alabama 5

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