Rhya
Rhya was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,365 among girls’ names; 348 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rhya?
#5,365 among girls’ names, 2025
Rhya rose from #10,716 in 2015 to #5,365 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 14.9 per million.
31 babies in 2023, the peak
Rhya peaked in 2023, when 31 girls were given it, #4,533 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,365 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,755 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,533 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,592 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,621 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,034 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,273 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,404 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,433 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,959 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,716 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,393 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,776 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,538 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,354 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,440 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,305 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,440 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,017 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,790 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,752 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,869 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,507 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,349 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,710 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rhya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rhya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rhya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhya, and how old are they?
An estimated 345 Americans named Rhya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 261 people named Rhya (256 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 213 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Rhya rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Rhya?
Rhya is a less common spelling of Riya: SSA has recorded 348 Rhya and 6,273 Riya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,264 babies since 1880, Rhya is the sixth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 548 babies (4.4%), again the sixth 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 Rhya
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 Rhya and names like it
- Compare Rhya and RiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRhya peaked in 2023.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Rhya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rhya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.