Rachid
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rachid is a given name, most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Arabic origin; from Rashid, meaning 'rightly guided, wise'.
- MAMorocco1 in 147◐
- BEBelgium1 in 1.1K
- DZAlgeria1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈37K ●
- Sources
- 314 ●
- 1 in 3.4K ◐
across 12 countries
393K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin●
Arabic origin; from Rashid, meaning 'rightly guided, wise'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #4 | 104,165 | 91K rec. | — | listed | Rachid | 123 |
| FR France | #284 | 18,750 | 219K rec. | 1 in 3.6K | 19K | Rachid | 314 |
| DZ Algeria | #59 | 16,705 | 18K rec. | — | — | Rachid | 74 |
| ES Spain | #679 | 14,560 | 20K rec. | 1 in 3.4K | 15K | Rachid | 78 |
| BE Belgium | #102 | 13,752 | 12K rec. | — | 67 | Rachid | 82 |
| IT Italy | #849 | 5,920 | 6.4K rec. | — | 2 | Rachid | 48 |
| RO Romania | #357 | 2,224 | 50 rec. | — | — | Rachid | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,154 | 937 rec. | — | listed | Rachid | 67 |
| US United States | — | 1,617 | 12K rec. | 1 in 206K | 1.6K | Rachid | 186 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,500 | 3.3K rec. | 1 in 12K | 1.5K | Rachid | 58 |
| TN Tunisia | #495 | 516 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Rachid | 36 |
| SE Sweden | — | 347 | 387 rec. | 1 in 29K | 347 | — | 22 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French245K37%
- English239K36%
- Arabic69K10%
- Spanish51K8%
- Catalan15K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 244,948 | 37% |
| English | 238,957 | 36% |
| Arabic | 68,717 | 10% |
| Spanish | 50,864 | 8% |
| Catalan | 14,560 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Rachid 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 English, A male given name from French [in turn from Arabic], variant of Rashid.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Origine arabe, « le bien dirigé ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 10 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 23 years between 1974–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Rashid Ahmad Gangohib. 1829INnot in their usual nameThe Great Islamic Scholar (1829-1905)
- Rachid Solhb. 1926LBLebanese politician
- Rachid Sfarb. 1933TNTunisian politician (1933–2023)
- Rachid Boucharebb. 1953FRFrench film director
- Rachid Dericheb. 1954DZAlgerian-French computer scientist and medical researcher
- Rachid Tahab. 1958DZFranco-Algerian singer
- Prince Moulay Rachid of Moroccob. 1970MAMoroccan royal
- Rachid Nekkazb. 1972DZAlgerian businessman and political activist
- Rachid Badourib. 1976CACanadian comedian
- Rachid Ghezzalb. 1992FRAlgerian-French footballer (born 1992)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 72 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 19K | #1,238 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15K | #435 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 13K | #214 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,797 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.5K | #819 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.4K | #1,750 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 481 | #8,279 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 481 | #8,262 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 480 | #2,579 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 347 | #3,557 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 289 | #20,241 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 279 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 255 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rachid?
- We estimate roughly 37 thousand people bear Rachid (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rachid have the most bearers?
- Rachid is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled rachid.
- How common is Rachid compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Rachid is the 4th most common given name of 44,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Rachid a male or female name?
- Rachid 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.
- What does the name Rachid mean?
- Recorded meaning: Arabic origin; from Rashid, meaning 'rightly guided, wise'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Rachid” — the 4th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.