Rhoda

Girls’ name Recorded 1880-2025

Rhoda was given to 47 girls in 2025, #3,337 among girls’ names; 26,069 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 9,400 Americans named Rhoda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (36% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 50 and 77.

Babies named Rhoda each year, first recorded in 1880

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Rhoda or Rhodie Names of the 1920s Names in New York

Births of Rhoda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Rhoda mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Rhoda is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.” Its etymology gives the senses “woman from Rhodes” (Ῥόδη) and “rose” (ῥόδον).

From Ancient Greek Ῥόδη (Rhódē, “woman from Rhodes”) or ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).

/ˈɹoʊ.də/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Rhoda (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Rhoda?

#3,337 among girls’ names, 2025

Rhoda rose from #3,381 in 2015 to #3,337 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 26.9 to 29.2 per million.

547 babies in 1926, the peak

Rhoda peaked in 1926, when 547 girls were given it, #282 among girls’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.

Rhoda by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 girls
2025	47	#3,337	0.03
2024	59	#2,850	0.04
2023	48	#3,375	0.03
2022	51	#3,205	0.03
2021	57	#2,955	0.03
2020	46	#3,382	0.03
2019	46	#3,436	0.03
2018	47	#3,385	0.03
2017	43	#3,612	0.02
2016	52	#3,175	0.03

Every recorded year (146)

Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 girls
2015	48	#3,381	0.03
2014	41	#3,764	0.02
2013	38	#3,986	0.02
2012	33	#4,465	0.02
2011	32	#4,552	0.02
2010	50	#3,295	0.03
2009	35	#4,352	0.02
2008	43	#3,766	0.02
2007	33	#4,547	0.02
2006	36	#4,142	0.02
2005	37	#3,928	0.02
2004	45	#3,377	0.02
2003	34	#4,016	0.02
2002	36	#3,708	0.02
2001	39	#3,472	0.02
2000	41	#3,319	0.02
1999	42	#3,137	0.02
1998	42	#3,056	0.02
1997	50	#2,581	0.03
1996	39	#3,074	0.02
1995	34	#3,339	0.02
1994	30	#3,680	0.02
1993	36	#3,202	0.02
1992	37	#3,123	0.02
1991	58	#2,256	0.03
1990	48	#2,505	0.03
1989	42	#2,701	0.02
1988	35	#2,959	0.02
1987	32	#3,013	0.02
1986	53	#2,045	0.03
1985	49	#2,163	0.03
1984	53	#1,952	0.03
1983	47	#2,121	0.03
1982	56	#1,915	0.03
1981	68	#1,692	0.04
1980	75	#1,567	0.05
1979	76	#1,540	0.05
1978	80	#1,449	0.05
1977	95	#1,265	0.06
1976	115	#1,069	0.08
1975	182	#777	0.12
1974	162	#826	0.11
1973	132	#929	0.09
1972	128	#955	0.08
1971	129	#982	0.08
1970	116	#1,058	0.07
1969	132	#925	0.08
1968	143	#857	0.09
1967	161	#785	0.10
1966	234	#622	0.14
1965	226	#656	0.13
1964	220	#697	0.12
1963	189	#751	0.10
1962	181	#773	0.09
1961	212	#713	0.11
1960	227	#676	0.11
1959	259	#620	0.13
1958	264	#613	0.13
1957	356	#505	0.17
1956	241	#615	0.12
1955	239	#597	0.12
1954	233	#592	0.12
1953	253	#549	0.13
1952	230	#568	0.12
1951	262	#512	0.15
1950	278	#484	0.16
1949	271	#488	0.16
1948	251	#522	0.15
1947	287	#485	0.16
1946	271	#479	0.17
1945	227	#478	0.17
1944	276	#433	0.21
1943	306	#421	0.22
1942	331	#392	0.25
1941	284	#407	0.24
1940	315	#371	0.28
1939	348	#341	0.32
1938	360	#334	0.33
1937	341	#344	0.32
1936	376	#314	0.36
1935	405	#306	0.39
1934	425	#304	0.41
1933	378	#321	0.38
1932	420	#308	0.39
1931	486	#283	0.46
1930	497	#297	0.44
1929	483	#300	0.43
1928	504	#297	0.44
1927	455	#314	0.38
1926	547	#282	0.46
1925	514	#297	0.42
1924	503	#298	0.40
1923	436	#309	0.36
1922	463	#297	0.39
1921	430	#313	0.35
1920	421	#318	0.35
1919	420	#308	0.37
1918	433	#306	0.37
1917	345	#335	0.32
1916	385	#308	0.37
1915	385	#297	0.39
1914	266	#324	0.35
1913	189	#350	0.30
1912	189	#330	0.34
1911	161	#311	0.38
1910	170	#296	0.43
1909	136	#314	0.39
1908	108	#341	0.32
1907	138	#299	0.43
1906	132	#291	0.45
1905	145	#275	0.50
1904	116	#301	0.42
1903	122	#287	0.47
1902	152	#255	0.58
1901	125	#260	0.52
1900	151	#266	0.50
1899	127	#250	0.55
1898	148	#243	0.57
1897	127	#253	0.54
1896	130	#249	0.55
1895	136	#237	0.58
1894	136	#230	0.61
1893	136	#224	0.64
1892	140	#220	0.66
1891	138	#198	0.74
1890	138	#202	0.72
1889	148	#187	0.83
1888	130	#196	0.73
1887	104	#199	0.71
1886	114	#189	0.79
1885	106	#181	0.80
1884	93	#192	0.72
1883	93	#173	0.83
1882	79	#178	0.73
1881	84	#161	0.91
1880	73	#176	0.80

Download Rhoda’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Rhoda a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Rhoda has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 146 years of records.

Girls and boys named Rhoda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Rhoda, and how old are they?

9,400 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 36% of the 26,069 Americans ever recorded as Rhoda. The median Rhoda alive today is 66 years old; half are between 50 and 77.

The 2020 Census counted 11,868 people named Rhoda (11,842 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,010 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.

Alive today, by age

100-10934

90-99564

80-891,380

70-791,860

60-69 (median)2,020

50-591,300

40-49625

30-39382

20-29397

10-19402

0-9441

Alive today, by generation

By generation
Generation	Born	Alive
Silent Generation	1928-1945	1,770
Baby Boomers	1946-1964	3,630
Generation X	1965-1980	2,020
Millennials	1981-1996	696
Generation Z	1997-2012	621
Generation Alpha	2013-2025	619

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).

Where are babies named Rhoda born?

The states with the most babies named Rhoda are New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among girls’ names in the state in 2025
State	Since 1910	Rank, girls	vs. national
New York	4,524	not ranked	2.3×
Pennsylvania	2,348	#753	1.5×
Ohio	1,112	#1,407	1.0×
Illinois	814	not ranked	0.7×
New Jersey	727	not ranked	1.1×
California	707	not ranked	0.5×
Kentucky	682	not ranked	1.3×
Michigan	631	not ranked	0.7×
Massachusetts	547	not ranked	0.8×
Texas	499	not ranked	0.4×

Where Rhoda is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Rhoda is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

New York2.29×

Pennsylvania1.46×

Kentucky1.27×

New Jersey1.08×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rhoda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.

Names spelled alike

Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 26,396 babies since 1880, Rhoda is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 52 babies (90%), again the most given.

Rhoda and the names spelled alike
Name	Since 1880	Births 2025	Peak year
Rhoda	26,069	47	1926
Rhodie	139	under 5	1903
Roda	118	5	1970
Rhodia	70	under 5	1918

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 Rhoda

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

Name	Recorded	1880-2025
Berta	7,286
Elizebeth	4,603
Lavenia	1,691
Harriett	21,626
Lue	7,169
Louella	13,958

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 Rhoda and names like it

Compare Rhoda and RhodieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
The most given names of the 1920sRhoda peaked in 1926.
New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rhoda since 1910.
Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Rhoda: every such name, by how often it is given.
The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Rhoda.
The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rhoda alive today were born 1946-1964.
Names starting with RMost given first.

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