girls:
208k births since 1910
#189 (97th percentile)
boys:
589 births since 1932
#3997 (13th percentile)
overall:
208.6k births since 1910
#376 (95th percentile)
The name Rhonda is the #376 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 208,629 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 95.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #189 (96.7% percentile) for all time with 208,040 births since 1910. For boys, it ranks #3,997 (12.8% percentile) for all time with 589 births since 1932.
Rhonda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for girls and 1932 for boys). Birth data for Rhonda is available in 108 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (108 years for girls and 38 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rhonda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rhonda reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 95.2% percentile (ranked #37) with 5,990 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 5,990 births per million (ranked 95.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1968, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Rhonda ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 0.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rhonda reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #599) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 23 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rhonda".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rhonda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.1% confident that Rhonda is pronounced as RAHN-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ROHN-duh, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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