Rhoda
Rhoda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 58 births. Its best rank was 161st, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 580.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1926547 births
- Best rank
- #161in 1881
- Since 1880
- 26,009people given the name
The story in the numbers
26,009 girls have been named Rhoda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 547 births.
The name has all but left use: 58 births in 2024, against 547 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 95 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rhoda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,024 | |
| 1890s | 1,356 | |
| 1900s | 1,325 | |
| 1910s | 2,943 | |
| 1920s | 4,756 | |
| 1930s | 4,036 | |
| 1940s | 2,819 | |
| 1950s | 2,615 | |
| 1960s | 1,925 | |
| 1970s | 1,215 | |
| 1980s | 510 | |
| 1990s | 416 | |
| 2000s | 379 | |
| 2010s | 430 | |
| 2020s | 260 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Rhoda was the 282nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Rhoda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bertapeak 1926
- Elizebethpeak 1928
- Louellapeak 1932
- Anniepeak 1922
- Leonorapeak 1924
- Corneliapeak 1921
- Luepeak 1919
- Melvinapeak 1920
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.