Rhonda
Rhonda was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,276 among girls’ names; 208,658 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 180,000 Americans named Rhonda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 56 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhonda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rhonda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rhonda is “a female given name from Welsh.” Its etymology gives the senses “pike, lance” (rhon) and “good” (da).
Modern coinage explained as Welsh rhon (“pike, lance”) + da (“good”)
/ˈɹɑndə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rhonda?
#6,276 among girls’ names, 2025
Rhonda rose from #6,927 in 2015 to #6,276 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 11.8 per million.
10,981 babies in 1965, the peak
Rhonda peaked in 1965, when 10,981 babies were given it (10,949 girls, #37 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,276 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,942 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,351 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,654 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,967 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,841 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,954 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,964 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,489 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,574 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,927 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,530 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,792 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,466 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,513 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,476 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,346 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,531 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,449 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,546 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,447 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,800 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,599 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,282 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,297 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,711 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,567 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,077 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 124 | #1,380 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 109 | #1,495 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 140 | #1,224 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 193 | #963 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 245 | #818 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 271 | #765 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 314 | #685 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 373 | #604 | 0.20 |
| 1989 | 401 | #559 | 0.22 |
| 1988 | 463 | #489 | 0.26 |
| 1987 | 607 | #385 | 0.35 |
| 1986 | 639 | #367 | 0.37 |
| 1985 | 668 | #354 | 0.39 |
| 1984 | 835 | #288 | 0.50 |
| 1983 | 939 | #255 | 0.56 |
| 1982 | 1,132 | #227 | 0.67 |
| 1981 | 1,355 | #199 | 0.81 |
| 1980 | 1,533 | #179 | 0.92 |
| 1979 | 1,716 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 1978 | 1,726 | #160 | 1.1 |
| 1977 | 2,162 | #131 | 1.4 |
| 1976 | 2,460 | #107 | 1.7 |
| 1975 | 3,167 | #93 | 2.2 |
| 1974 | 3,525 | #86 | 2.4 |
| 1973 | 4,161 | #70 | 2.9 |
| 1972 | 5,001 | #60 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6,649 | #46 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 7,379 | #46 | 4.2 |
| 1969 | 7,917 | #44 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 8,268 | #42 | 5.0 |
| 1967 | 9,072 | #41 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 9,805 | #39 | 5.8 |
| 1965 | 10,949 | #37 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 9,713 | #43 | 5.1 |
| 1963 | 9,356 | #45 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 9,803 | #45 | 5.0 |
| 1961 | 9,469 | #46 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 9,255 | #44 | 4.6 |
| 1959 | 8,861 | #45 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 8,341 | #48 | 4.1 |
| 1957 | 8,051 | #52 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 7,521 | #62 | 3.7 |
| 1955 | 6,171 | #71 | 3.2 |
| 1954 | 6,100 | #71 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5,029 | #85 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 3,963 | #95 | 2.1 |
| 1951 | 3,212 | #111 | 1.8 |
| 1950 | 2,567 | #125 | 1.5 |
| 1949 | 1,867 | #157 | 1.1 |
| 1948 | 908 | #248 | 0.53 |
| 1947 | 603 | #317 | 0.34 |
| 1946 | 580 | #306 | 0.37 |
| 1945 | 302 | #409 | 0.23 |
| 1944 | 166 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1943 | 112 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 109 | #714 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 101 | #701 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 73 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 57 | #936 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 71 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 50 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 45 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 49 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,233 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,651 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,344 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,730 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,281 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,885 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,920 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,201 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,743 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,612 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,935 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,578 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,174 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,987 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,646 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,831 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,536 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rhonda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rhonda has been given almost only to girls: 589 boys in 110 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rhonda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhonda, and how old are they?
180,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 208,658 Americans ever recorded as Rhonda. The median Rhonda alive today is 62 years old; half are between 56 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 173,379 people named Rhonda (173,202 women and girls, 177 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 188,283 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 555 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 91,200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 78,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 927 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 238 |
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 Rhonda born?
The states with the most babies named Rhonda are Texas, California and Ohio, with 21% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16,200 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 14,723 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 12,244 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 10,209 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 8,359 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 7,974 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 7,848 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 7,795 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 7,321 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 7,181 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Rhonda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rhonda is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 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 Rhonda 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 244,113 babies since 1880, Rhonda is the most given (85% of them).
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 Rhonda
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 Rhonda and names like it
- Compare Rhonda and RondaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRhonda peaked in 1965.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rhonda since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Rhonda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Rhonda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rhonda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.