Rashid
From Arabic, where it means "rightly guided". In Poland it stays rare: only about 160 men carry it, and no boys were given it last year.
Rashid Pronunciation
What Rashid means
Where Rashid comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rashid is an Arabic name. It grows from a root that speaks of right guidance. The English gloss is "rightly guided", and in Polish it reads "prawy, sprawiedliwy". Al-Rashid stands among the ninety-nine names of God in Islam, the one who leads a person toward what is just.
The best documented bearer is Harun al-Rashid, the Abbasid caliph who ruled from Baghdad around the year 800. His court became the frame for the Thousand and One Nights, where storytellers set caliphs and merchants side by side. The epithet al-Rashid that he wore is the same word a child answers to today.
It travels without a diminutive. On a Polish class register, Rashid keeps its full form, with no Polish variant printed beside it, and the meaning holds at "rightly guided".
How many people are named Rashid
1 in 130160 men in Poland is named Rashid. 164 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2523 among male names.
Rashid as a middle name
Rashid is a first name for 164 men in Poland and a middle name for another 37, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1335th, between Rami (37) and Stephane (37).
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#1333 Prot37
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#1335 Rashid37
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#1336 Stephane37
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