Girls' name · since 1991
Rhya
348 babies named Rhya in U.S. Social Security records since 1991, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #14,694 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,312 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 348
- born since 1991
- 2020s
- peak decade
Rhya currently ranks #5312 among girls' names in America, with 348 babies recorded since 1991.
Rhya has 348 recorded births among girls since 1991, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #5312 as of the latest data, more common than 69% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1991 to 2025.
- #14,694 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #5,312 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 348 born since 1991
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rhya ranks #14,694 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #5,312 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 348 born since 1991, peaking in the 2020s.
- #14,694 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,312 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 348
- born since 1991
- 2020s
- peak decade
Rhya's 348 recorded births place it above 79.68% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Rhya compares
348 48th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Rhya's all-time total is 7% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Rhya | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 348 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 31 | 21 | 19,840 |
Rhya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Rhya splits its recorded history at 2013: 62% of all births land in the more recent half, 38% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2001 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2023 peak of 31 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Rhya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1991–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 31
- Annual births at peak, across 35 years of records
Rhya by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (138 births, 40% of the file).
2020s was Rhya's strongest decade.
138 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 40% of all-time use.
Rhya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 6
1990s
6 births
- 2000s
2000s
77 births
- 2010s
2010s
127 births
- 2020s
2020s
138 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 138 births (40% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Rhya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2023)
Similar record span (~34 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1991–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Rhya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.