Rhen
Rhen is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 18 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,757 among girls’ names and #5,348 among boys’, #8,043 among all names counting both); 523 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rhen?
#5,348 among boys’ names, 2025
Rhen rose from #10,386 in 2015 to #5,348 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 10.5 per million.
55 babies in 2021, the peak
Rhen peaked in 2021, when 55 babies were given it (33 boys, #3,475 among boys’ names). The 30 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,757 | 18 | #5,348 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,438 | 19 | #5,205 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,868 | 33 | #3,542 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,653 | 22 | #4,664 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,701 | 33 | #3,475 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,033 | 31 | #3,548 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,420 | 23 | #4,443 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,039 | 13 | #6,626 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,431 | 14 | #6,272 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,854 | 16 | #5,733 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 7 | #10,386 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,639 | 7 | #10,479 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,120 | 5 | #13,645 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,437 | 6 | #11,939 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 5 | #13,891 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,223 | 5 | #13,815 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #13,957 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #10,575 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,469 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #8,646 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 10 | #5,683 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #8,234 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 7 | #6,771 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #6,280 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 13 | #3,677 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 9 | #4,758 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 7 | #5,627 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rhen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 523 Americans recorded as Rhen, 35% are girls and 65% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rhen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhen, and how old are they?
An estimated 517 Americans named Rhen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 363 people named Rhen (134 women and girls, 229 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,112 babies since 1880, Rhen is the fourth most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 454 babies (6.6%), again the fourth most given.
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 Rhen
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.
More about Rhen and names like it
- Compare Rhen and RenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRhen peaked in 2021.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Rhen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rhen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.