Rhian
Rhian was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 1,015 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,000 Americans named Rhian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rhian mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rhian is “a female given name from Welsh.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
From modern Welsh Rhian.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rhian?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,923, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
64 babies in 2007, the peak
Rhian peaked in 2007, when 64 babies were given it (59 girls, #3,020 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #10,923 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,869 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,928 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,157 | 6 | #11,834 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,579 | 8 | #9,370 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,755 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,861 | 6 | #11,836 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,152 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,943 | 5 | #13,756 |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,210 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 34 | #4,336 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,613 | 6 | #11,838 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,577 | 5 | #13,780 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,551 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,475 | 7 | #10,507 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,855 | 5 | #14,048 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,463 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 59 | #3,020 | 5 | #13,958 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,240 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,850 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,968 | 10 | #7,398 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,368 | 7 | #9,389 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,734 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,557 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,643 | 6 | #10,054 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,766 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,529 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,747 | 5 | #10,470 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,466 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,593 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,628 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,173 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,838 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,043 | 5 | #9,200 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,556 | 5 | #8,947 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,365 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,747 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,574 | |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,409 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,705 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,917 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,841 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,703 | 7 | #5,360 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,830 | 7 | #5,387 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 6 | #5,902 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,321 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,734 | 10 | #3,787 |
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 Rhian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,015 Americans recorded as Rhian, 88% are girls and 12% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rhian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhian, and how old are they?
1,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,015 Americans ever recorded as Rhian. The median Rhian alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,011 people named Rhian (846 women and girls, 165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 925 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 43 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 126 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 291 |
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 8,131 babies since 1880, Rhian is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 none of their 145 babies recorded by SSA was a Rhian (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rhian
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 Rhian and names like it
- Compare Rhian and RhyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRhian peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rhian since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Rhian: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Rhian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rhian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.