Rasheed is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “rightly guided.” In 2024 it was given to 30 boys in the United States.
Rasheed at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“rightly guided”
About the name Rasheed
Rasheed belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “rightly guided” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Rasheed first appears in Social Security records in 1968. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #719 in 1995, and in 2024 30 babies received the name — 4,801 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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