Rashid is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “rightly guided.” In 2024 it was given to 32 boys in the United States.
Rashid at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“rightly guided”
About the name Rashid
Rashid 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, Rashid first appears in Social Security records in 1966. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1118 in 1976, and in 2024 32 babies received the name — 2,534 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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