Rashaad is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Rashaad is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Rashaad. In the SmartGenius ranking, Rashaad is #2,540 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rashaad.
Rashaad is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Rashaad - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 814 in 1988. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Rashaad really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rashaad was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
35 babies were named Rashaad in 2022 - that's 1 in 4,612,171 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Rashaad ranked 2,936 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds of having a man or boy named Rashaad in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Rashaad is registered in 19 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Rashaad live in Florida, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 28,004 men and boys in Florida for their name before you meet one who answers with Rashaad.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Rashaad has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Rashaad and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rashaad, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Sun
Hat
Apple
Apple
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rashaad
Rashaad
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
S
H
A
A
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
A
S
H
A
A
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rashaad sounds like this:
