Râshid
surname · Latin script
Râshid is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Oman it is the 3rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of two Arabic male given names: رَاشِد (rāšid) and رَشِيد (rašīd).
- OMOman≈1 in 410(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 600
- TZTanzania≈1 in 700
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Râshid itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 363 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 405 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rashid in ES Spain, AE United Arab Emirates, BD Bangladesh and 4 more, Rasheed in PK Pakistan, NG Nigeria and Rajat in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Transliteration of two Arabic male given names: رَاشِد (rāšid) and رَشِيد (rašīd).
Cited for this meaning 9
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Râshid counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #340 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 3.2K | Rajat | 265 |
| PK Pakistan | #52 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Rasheed | 135 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Rasheed | 100 |
| TZ Tanzania | #463 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 696 | 18 | Rashid | 47 |
| BD Bangladesh | #252 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Rashid | 149 |
| ES Spain | — | 14,560as Rachid | 1 in 3.4K | 15K | Rashid | 42 |
| OM Oman | #3 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 405 | — | Rashid | 84 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #20 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 844 | — | Rashid | 156 |
| QA Qatar | #52 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 603 | — | Rashid | 97 |
| KW Kuwait | #262 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Rashid | 70 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Râshid mean, and where does it come from?
- Transliteration of two Arabic male given names: رَاشِد (rāšid) and رَشِيد (rašīd). Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Râshid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 250 thousand people named Râshid in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rajat.
- How common is the name Râshid?
- In Spain, the national register counted 14,560 people named Rachid, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Râshid compared with other names?
- In India, Râshid is the 340th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Râshid” — the 340th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.