Rashid
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from the Muslim male personal name Rashid, from Arabic rashid 'wise, judicious'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɑˈʃid/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rashid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name.
- OMOman≈1 in 375(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 636
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 761
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 Rashid 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 363 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 375 (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rasheed in PK Pakistan, NG Nigeria and Рашид in RU Russia.
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)
from the Muslim male personal name Rashid, from Arabic rashid 'wise, judicious'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rashid is read(measured from records)
Rashid is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi31%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rashid in Hindi.
- Urdu16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rashid in Urdu.
- English11%
from the Muslim male personal name Rashid, from Arabic rashid 'wise, judicious'
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Arabic: the well guided
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Swahili10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rashid in Swahili.
- Arabic6.0%
Rightly guided; mature, wise. Qur'anic name.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
intelligent; rightly guided
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rashid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #52 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 830 | 1 | Rasheed | 135 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Rasheed | 100 |
| BD Bangladesh | #252 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Rashid | 149 |
| TZ Tanzania | #463 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 636 | 18 | Rashid | 47 |
| RU Russia | #157 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | #111 | Рашид | 155 |
| ES Spain | — | 14,560as Rachid | 1 in 3.4K | 15K | Rashid | 42 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #20 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 761 | — | Rashid | 156 |
| OM Oman | #3 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 375 | — | Rashid | 84 |
| QA Qatar | #52 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Rashid | 97 |
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: 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rashid is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Rashid är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’den rätt vägledde; den vise’. Det är ett av Allahs 99 olika namn. En känd litterär namnbärare är kalifen Harun al-Rashid i sagosamlingen Tusen och en natt.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Colui che ha la vera fede
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Rashid-al-Din Hamadanib. 1247IRPersian physician and historian (1247-1318)
- Rashid Behbudovb. 1915GESoviet Azerbaijani singer and actor (1915-1989)
- Rashid Sunyaevb. 1943RURussian astronomer (born 1943)
- Rashid Khalidib. 1948USPalestinian-American historian
- Rashid Nurgalievb. 1956RURussian military officer and politician
- Rashidi Yekinib. 1963NGnot in their usual nameNigerian footballer (1963-2012)
- Commonb. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and actor (born 1972)
- Rashid Temrezovb. 1976RURussian politician
- Rashid Ramzib. 1980MAMoroccan-born middle distance runner for Bahrain
- Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoumb. 1981AEPrince of Dubai and son of the 3rd Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (1981–2015)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 94 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 300 | #6,611 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 291 | #3,104 |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 18 | #13 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Rashid mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Muslim male personal name Rashid, from Arabic rashid 'wise, judicious' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Rashid?
- In the etymology graph, Reşit is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rashid?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɑˈʃid/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Rashid a male or female name?
- Rashid is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Rashid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 281 thousand people named Rashid in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rasheed.
- How common is the name Rashid?
- In Spain, the national register counted 14,560 people named Rachid, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Rashid compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Rashid is the 52nd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rashid?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rashidThe 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, “Rashid” — the 52nd most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.