Rhetta
Rhetta was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,715 among girls’ names; 621 Americans have been recorded with it since 1895 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rhetta?
#11,715 among girls’ names, 2025
Rhetta entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,715 in 2025.
18 babies in 1941, the peak
Rhetta peaked in 1941, when 18 girls were given it, #2,010 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,715 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,330 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,095 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,930 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,619 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,718 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,191 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,912 | 3.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,188 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,676 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 6 | #10,048 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,196 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,832 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,422 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,751 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,229 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,847 | 4.7 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,234 | 6.7 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,289 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,914 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,592 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,475 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,957 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,478 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,579 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,880 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,641 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,458 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,735 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,287 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,067 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,164 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,671 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,237 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,966 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,399 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,029 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,465 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,940 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,598 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,994 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,516 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 18 | #2,010 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,545 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,886 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,702 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,892 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,643 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,404 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,655 | 10.9 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,453 | 5.3 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,297 | 4.3 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,611 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,943 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,600 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,716 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,867 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,743 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,206 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,490 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,853 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,088 | 9.1 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,607 | 8.0 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,178 | 17.1 |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,031 | 19.1 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,922 | 19.3 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,772 | 21.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rhetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rhetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rhetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 369 Americans named Rhetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 55 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 439 people named Rhetta (435 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 384 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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).
How common is the spelling Rhetta?
Rhetta is a less common spelling of Reta: SSA has recorded 621 Rhetta and 8,616 Reta since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,589 babies since 1880, Rhetta is the fifth most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 21 babies (38%), the 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 Rhetta
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 Rhetta and names like it
- Compare Rhetta and RetaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 1941The year the most babies were named Rhetta.
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