Rashod
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ruh-SHOD
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Rashod is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “right guidance”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Rashod mean?
Arabic: variant of Rashad
“right guidance”
A variant of Rashad, from an Arabic word for good sense and right guidance.
Is Rashod a girl's or a boy's name?
Rashod is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rashod in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,906th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Rashod, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 1994, with 35 boys. It first appears in the records in 1975.
Half of all the boys named Rashod in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
Rashod in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,341 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,107 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,303 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,167 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,387 |
| 2011 | 25 | #3,992 |
| 2010 | 25 | #3,993 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,746 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,392 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,491 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,684 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,237 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,124 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,833 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,939 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,115 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,198 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,027 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,549 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,346 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,016 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,551 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,254 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,503 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,357 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,822 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,165 |
| 1989 | 20 | #2,983 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,362 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,197 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,437 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,708 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,612 |
| 1983 | 15 | #2,911 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,425 |
| 1981 | 27 | #1,995 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,097 |
| 1979 | 26 | #1,991 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,798 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,201 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,469 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,900 |
Names like Rashod
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ahmad, Muhammad, Amir, Hamza, Raheem, Samir, Khalid, Abdullah, Zahir, Nasir, Mustafa, Hassan
Names related to Rashod
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Rashod: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rashod, updated 20 October 2026.