Rhema
Rhema was given to 115 girls in 2025, #1,766 among girls’ names; 1,290 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Rhema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rhema?
#1,766 among girls’ names, 2025
Rhema rose from #3,691 in 2015 to #1,766 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.5 to 71.6 per million.
115 babies in 2025, the peak
Rhema peaked in 2025, when 115 girls were given it, #1,766 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 92 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 115 | #1,766 | 71.6 |
| 2024 | 92 | #2,095 | 56.8 |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,307 | 49.9 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,779 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,667 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | 54 | #3,004 | 33.4 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,264 | 29.2 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,988 | 21.8 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,053 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,648 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,691 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,474 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,254 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,976 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,550 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,474 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,852 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,247 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,861 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,065 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,184 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,155 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,914 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,844 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,517 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,887 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,322 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,910 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,864 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,309 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,403 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,483 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,338 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,568 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,018 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,082 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,961 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,025 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,229 | 6.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,313 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,895 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,856 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,957 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,239 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rhema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,290 Americans recorded as Rhema, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 115 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rhema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhema, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,290 Americans ever recorded as Rhema. The median Rhema alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 869 people named Rhema (803 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 808 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 131 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 359 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 787 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 31,771 babies since 1880, Rhema is the third most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 115 of their 2,560 babies (4.5%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rhema
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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