Rhia
Rhia was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,560 among girls’ names; 170 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rhia?
#14,560 among girls’ names, 2025
Rhia fell from #11,642 in 2015 to #14,560 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.7 per million.
13 babies in 2009, the peak
Rhia peaked in 2009, when 13 girls were given it, #9,290 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,560 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,176 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,059 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,898 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,117 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,199 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,621 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,432 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,049 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,642 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,775 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,942 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,035 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,597 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,224 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,290 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,828 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,654 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,840 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,692 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,844 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,473 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rhia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rhia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rhia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhia, and how old are they?
An estimated 168 Americans named Rhia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 313 people named Rhia (313 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 133 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Rhia rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Rhia?
Rhia is a less common spelling of Riya: SSA has recorded 170 Rhia and 6,273 Riya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,739 babies since 1880, Rhia is the sixth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 427 babies (1.4%), the seventh 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 Rhia
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 Rhia and names like it
- Compare Rhia and RiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRhia peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Rhia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rhia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.