Rhodora — girls' name

What the Data Says About Rhodora

The Social Security Administration has registered 36 babies named Rhodora between 1930 and 1972, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rhodora currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1972. The name reached its historical peak in 1931, when 10 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rhodora performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 16 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Rhodora shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Iowa. In total, SSA state-level files list Rhodora in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rhodora in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 36 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.