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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.

1975Busiest: 35 in 19942025
Rashod in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20258#8,906
202410#7,760
20230–
20226#10,855
20218#8,820
202010#7,497
201912#6,772
201813#6,341
201718#5,107
201610#7,600
201513#6,320
201413#6,303
201317#5,167
201222#4,387
201125#3,992
201025#3,993
200920#4,746
200822#4,392
200721#4,491
200627#3,684
200531#3,237
200421#4,124
200322#3,833
200231#2,939
200119#4,115
200018#4,198
199927#3,027
199833#2,549
199721#3,346
199624#3,016
199529#2,551
199435#2,254
199329#2,503
199231#2,357
199123#2,822
199033#2,165
198920#2,983
198825#2,362
198715#3,197
198613#3,437
198518#2,708
198418#2,612
198315#2,911
198220#2,425
198127#1,995
198014#3,097
197926#1,991
197815#2,798
197712#3,201
197610#3,469
197513#2,900

Names like Rashod

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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.