Given name & surname
Rashidi
Rashidi is a surname from Arabic. It is used in English and Swahili.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Arabic رَشِيدِيّ; its root is Arabic ر ش د.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rashidi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 95
- 95 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 197 as a first name in 2020; 903 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.
Rashidi’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rashidi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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