How Many People Are Named Rashawn?

6,873

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

About 1 in 49,728 people in the US has this name

Based on 7,117 babies named Rashawn in Social Security records from 1966 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,063

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,185

See the top 100

Peak Year

1993

273 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

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

Meaning:

Combination of the prefix Ra with the name SHAWN.

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

Same Sound, Other Spellings

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

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
9.9%
Male
90.1%

Of the babies given the name Rashawn, 9.9% were girls and 90.1% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Rashawn fell from 30.4% in the 1970s to 0% in the 2020s.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Rashawn alive today is about 29 years old, and 52% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 20 and 38 in 2025.

Under 30 3,326
48.4%
30 to 59 3,546
51.6%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Rashawn first appears in the records in 1966 and was given most often in 1993, to 273 babies. In 2025, 36 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1966 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Rashawn has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #658, in 1993. In 2025 it ranked #3,292.

Boys
Rank in 2025#3,292
Best rank#658 (1993)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#729 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Rashawn were born in New York than in any other state: about 951 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rashawn was given 4.1 times as often in South Carolina, 3.8 times in New Jersey and 3.3 times in New York.

New York 951
New Jersey 445
Ohio 408
Illinois 347
North Carolina 325
Florida 307
Pennsylvania 255
South Carolina 218
Virginia 217
Georgia 211
California 163
Michigan 153
Maryland 69
Texas 68
Louisiana 35
Alabama 24
Tennessee 21
Massachusetts 16
Indiana 16
Missouri 15
District of Columbia 9
Oklahoma 5
Mississippi 5
Kentucky 5
Connecticut 5
Washington 5
Wisconsin 5

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