girls:
18.8k births since 1882
#1077 (81st percentile)
boys:
408 births since 1896
#4178 (9th percentile)
overall:
19.2k births since 1882
#1851 (76th percentile)
The name Rhea is the #1,851 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,202 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 76.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,077 (81.2% percentile) for all time with 18,794 births since 1882. For boys, it ranks #4,178 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 408 births since 1896.
Rhea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for girls and 1896 for boys).
The name Rhea has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rhea reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 51.0% percentile (ranked #465) with 329 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 329 births per million (ranked 51.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rhea is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #465 (51.0% percentile) with 329 births per million.
For boys, Rhea reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #524) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 46 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rhea".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Rhea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.0% confident that Rhea is pronounced as REE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAY-uh, at 18.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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