Rhea

girls’ nameAt its peakCompare

Rhea is ranked 616th among girls in 2024 (484 births). Its best rank was 363rd, in 1893.

Rank in 2024: #616down 90 from 2023
Births in 2024: 4840.03% of girls
Peak year: 2023577 births
Best rank: #363in 1893
Since 1882: 19,689people given the name

Babies named Rhea, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

19,281 girls have been named Rhea in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 577 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2023, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 2010s alone account for 14%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 408 boys have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Rhea
1880s	117
1890s	476
1900s	542
1910s	1,352
1920s	1,567
1930s	1,092
1940s	1,137
1950s	1,248
1960s	1,055
1970s	990
1980s	1,244
1990s	1,174
2000s	2,042
2010s	2,736
2020s	2,509

In 2023, its biggest year

Rhea was the 526th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2023 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2023.

Names that rose and fell with Rhea

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Rea2,039 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.