Rheya
Rheya was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,761 among girls’ names; 604 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rheya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rheya?
#3,761 among girls’ names, 2025
Rheya rose from #8,345 in 2015 to #3,761 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 24.9 per million.
53 babies in 2023, the peak
Rheya peaked in 2023, when 53 girls were given it, #3,132 among girls’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,761 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,804 | 24.7 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,132 | 33.0 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,182 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,246 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,172 | 30.9 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,656 | 25.0 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,329 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,490 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,763 | 23.1 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,345 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,238 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,843 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,012 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,039 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,138 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,366 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,641 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,449 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,147 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,237 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,696 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,905 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,348 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,003 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rheya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rheya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rheya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rheya, and how old are they?
An estimated 600 Americans named Rheya 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 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 358 people named Rheya (355 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 346 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 Rheya?
Rheya is a less common spelling of Raya: SSA has recorded 604 Rheya and 8,008 Raya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,596 babies since 1880, Rheya is the fifth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 1,640 babies (2.4%), the fourth 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 Rheya
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 Rheya and names like it
- Compare Rheya and RayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRheya peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rheya since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Rheya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rheya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.