"Blend of Ra and Shawnda"
The name Rashawnda is commonly a female name from the "American" origin.
Rashawnda is a modern American formation that pairs the opening Ra-, familiar from names such as Ramona and Raquel and reused in twentieth-century American coinages, with Shawnda, a phonetic spelling of names such as Shawna or Shonda. It is not an established name in an older naming tradition, and no meaning is recorded for it in any language. Its first appearance in United States birth records, in 1973, fits that pattern rather than an inherited etymology.
The pronunciation of Rashawnda is ruh-SHAWN-duh.
