Rhodes
Rhodes was given to 511 boys in 2025, #575 among boys’ names; 2,960 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,820 Americans named Rhodes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 3 years old and half are between 2 and 7.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhodes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rhodes mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rhodes is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
From rodes, the plural form of Middle English rode, from Old English rod, rodu. The Rh- form—a 16th century spelling modification—was created by analogy with the unrelated Rhodes, Greece.
/ɹoʊdz/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rhodes?
#575 among boys’ names, 2025
Rhodes rose from #2,187 in 2015 to #575 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.03 to 0.30 per 1,000.
557 babies in 2025, the peak
Rhodes peaked in 2025, when 557 babies were given it (511 boys, #575 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 465 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 511 | #575 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 465 | #615 | 0.27 |
| 2023 | 376 | #708 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 250 | #927 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 206 | #1,044 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,395 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,572 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 84 | #1,816 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 73 | #1,971 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,251 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | #2,187 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 48 | #2,569 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 42 | #2,796 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,100 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,147 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,486 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,017 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,667 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,986 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,413 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,142 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,399 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,145 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,127 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,969 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,148 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,535 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,643 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,372 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,461 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,462 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,910 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,051 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,178 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,444 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,637 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,707 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,667 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,446 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,830 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,442 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,313 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,131 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,333 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rhodes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,960 Americans recorded as Rhodes, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 46 girls and 511 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rhodes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhodes, and how old are they?
2,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,960 Americans ever recorded as Rhodes. The median Rhodes alive today is 3 years old; half are between 2 and 7.
The 2020 Census counted 931 people named Rhodes (106 women and girls, 825 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 769 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 175 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,610 |
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 Rhodes born?
The states with the most babies named Rhodes are Texas, California and Georgia, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 54 | #627 | 0.9× |
| California | 51 | #586 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 31 | #384 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 26 | #345 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #426 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 19 | #803 | 0.5× |
| New York | 16 | #878 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #625 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 15 | #564 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 15 | #480 | 0.4× |
Where Rhodes is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rhodes is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1915 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Rhodes 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 3,010 babies since 1880, Rhodes is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 557 of their 568 babies (98%), again the most given.
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 Rhodes
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 Rhodes and names like it
- Compare Rhodes and RhodeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRhodes peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rhodes since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Rhodes: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rhodes.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rhodes alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.