First name origin & meaning: Swahili: Wise adviser First name variations: Rasheed, Rasheid, Rasheyd Last name origin & meaning: Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic rashīd
‘wise’, ‘judicious’, ‘rightly guided’, ‘right-minded’.
Al-Rashīd ‘the Right-Minded’ is an epithet of Allah (see the
Qur’an 11:87). Rashīd is used in combination with other
words, e.g. ‛Abd ur-Rashīd ‘servant of the
Right-Minded’. Hārūn ur-Rashīd (786–809) was the most
famous of the Abbasid khalifs. This name is widespread throughout the
Muslim world.
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