Given name & surname
Rashad
“one who has good judgment”
Rashad is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who has good judgment.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who has good judgment.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rashad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16,332
- 16,247 boys · 85 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 682 babies
- 2025
- 95
- #1,722 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −40%
- Cooling
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 95 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,722 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 39.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 677 in 1990. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (12). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 12,313 as a first name in 2020; 975 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rashad’s family of names
Rashad has a related form in Rashaad. Rashad has a related form in Rashod.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Rashad
- Rashad al-AlimiChairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen since 2022born 1954
- Rashad Sadygovassociation football player from Azerbaijanborn 1982
- Rashad EvansAmerican mixed martial artistborn 1979
- Rashad KhalifaEgyptian-American biochemist (1935-1990)
- Rashad VaughnAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Rashad McCantsAmerican basketball player (born 1984)
- Rashad SadiqovAzerbaijani footballerborn 1983
- Rashad AbdullayevAzerbaijani footballerborn 1981
- Rashad MuhammedNigerian and French footballerborn 1993
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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