Rasha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Rasha är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’ung gasell’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹəʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rasha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.1K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.6K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈65,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Rasha är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’ung gasell’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rasha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #164 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Rasha | 133 |
| SY Syria | #117 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 1 | Rasha | 42 |
| JO Jordan | #371 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Rasha | 80 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #425 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Rasha | 119 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #260 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Rasha | 99 |
| US United States | — | 2,818 | 1 in 118K | 2.7K | Rasha | 239 |
| KW Kuwait | #229 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Rasha | 57 |
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: the wgnd-eg-names register; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Rasha is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, fawn, young gazelle
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, a fawn.'?
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Gazelle.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Hausa, Russia (a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, to daub on, sprinkle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Rasha Saltib. 1969CACanadian researcher, writer and producer
- Rasha Khayatb. 1978DEGerman translator
- Rasha Abbasb. 1984SYSyrian writer
- Rasha Bayoudhb. 1991TNtunisian contemporary artist
- Rasha Nasrb. 1992DEGerman politician
- Rasha Thadanib. 2005INRaveena Tandon's daughter
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 48 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #5,885 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 99 | #5,885 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 5 | — |
| SY Syria | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #397 |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Rasha mean?
- Recorded meaning: Rasha är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’ung gasell’.
- How do you pronounce Rasha?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəʃə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Rasha a male or female name?
- Rasha is a female 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 Rasha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 65 thousand people named Rasha in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rasha.
- How common is the name Rasha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,818 people named Rasha in 2020, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
- How common is Rasha compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Rasha is the 164th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rashaThe 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, “Rasha” — the 164th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.