Rash
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks; not careful; hasty
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɹæʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rash is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 43K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 52K
- CACanada≈1 in 61K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 340 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
7,769 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks; not careful; hasty.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rash 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 7,769 | 1 in 43K | 7.9K | Rash | 340 |
| KP North Korea | #515 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Rash | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 230 | Rash | 90 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Rash | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Rash | 51 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 10 | — | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Rash | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Rash | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | — | — |
7,769 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Rash is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, woya
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ron Rashb. 1953USAmerican poet, short story writer and novelist
- Lou Rashb. 1960USplayer of American football
- Scott H. Rashb. 1963USAmerican judge
- Jim Rashb. 1971USAmerican actor, comedian, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
- Steve Rashb. 2000USAmerican film director
- Lachlan D. RashAUresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.9K | #4,180 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.8K | #4,565 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.2K | #4,786 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 230 | #19,486 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rash mean, and where does it come from?
- Acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks; not careful; hasty. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Rash?
- In the etymology graph, Rasch is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rash?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹæʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rash have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.8 thousand people named Rash, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rash.
- How common is the name Rash?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,769 people named Rash in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Rash compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Rash is the 515th most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rashThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Rash” — the 515th most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.