Rashid
Rashid is the transliteration of two male given names: Arabic: راشد Rāshid and Arabic: رشيد Rashīd, both meaning 'rightly guided', 'having the true faith', or alternatively, 'the high one'.
- Arabic
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Malay
Meaning & Origin of Rashid
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Rashid is the transliteration of two male given names: Arabic: راشد Rāshid and Arabic: رشيد Rashīd, both meaning 'rightly guided', 'having the true faith', or alternatively, 'the high one'.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Malay
The Story of Rashid
Rashid first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1966, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1996: 67 births, good for #1,499 nationwide. About 22% of every Rashid on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Rashid ranks #3,523 for baby boys with 33 births, falling sharply (-17%). All told, over 3K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Rashid
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About the name Rashid
Rashid is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1966 and has accumulated 3K births in the dataset. Rashid's peak popularity came in 1996 when it ranked #1,111. Use the chart and map above to compare Rashid's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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