Rashid Family History
- Rashid Name Meaning
- Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic rashid ‘wise’, ‘judicious’, ‘rightly guided’, ‘right-minded’. Al-Rashid ‘the Right-Minded’ is an epithet of Allah (see the Qur’an 11:87). Rashid is used in combination with other words, e.g. ?Abd ur-Rashid ‘servant of the Right-Minded’. Harun ur-Rashid (786–809) was the most famous of the Abbasid khalifs. This name is widespread throughout the Muslim world.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 27,058 Historical Documents with Rashid on Ancestry
- 21,085 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,117 Census and Voter Lists
- 640 Military Records
- 1,802 Immigration Records
- 1,414 Member Trees
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Number of Rashid families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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