Rhapsody — girls' name
117 babies named Rhapsody in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
26% of everyone ever named Rhapsody was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Rhapsody in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rhapsody
The Social Security Administration has registered 117 babies named Rhapsody between 1977 and 2023, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rhapsody currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rhapsody performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 30 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Rhapsody shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rhapsody in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 117 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Rhapsody at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Rhapsody popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1977
- Peak year (1979)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 47 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
117 total births across 47 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 8 births in a single year.
Rhapsody by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 30 births that decade — 26% of Rhapsody's all-time total
Rhapsody decade highlights
- Peak decade 30 births
- Runner-up 23 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Rhapsody's strongest decade
30 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 26% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1977–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.