Rhyder
Rhyder is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 36 boys were given it in 2025 (#16,747 among girls’ names and #3,297 among boys’, #6,483 among all names counting both); 1,375 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Rhyder and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhyder by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rhyder?
#3,297 among boys’ names, 2025
Rhyder fell from #1,887 in 2015 to #3,297 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.7 to 21.1 per million.
109 babies in 2013, the peak
Rhyder peaked in 2013, when 109 babies were given it (98 boys, #1,585 among boys’ names). The 41 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,747 | 36 | #3,297 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,944 | 49 | #2,702 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,396 | 41 | #3,049 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 66 | #2,212 | |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,622 | 55 | #2,454 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,036 | 66 | #2,131 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,310 | 64 | #2,208 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,263 | 77 | #1,931 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,911 | 45 | #2,750 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,314 | 70 | #2,040 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,013 | 78 | #1,887 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,824 | 87 | #1,747 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,106 | 98 | #1,585 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,539 | 93 | #1,664 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,599 | 79 | #1,820 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 59 | #2,230 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 58 | #2,279 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 25 | #4,115 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 29 | #3,668 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 15 | #5,724 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 9 | #8,155 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 11 | #6,877 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 10 | #6,937 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rhyder a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,375 Americans recorded as Rhyder, 11% are girls and 89% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rhyder: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhyder, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,375 Americans ever recorded as Rhyder. The median Rhyder alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 835 people named Rhyder (65 women and girls, 770 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,011 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 954 |
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 Rhyder born?
The states with the most babies named Rhyder are Texas, California and Oklahoma, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 339 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| California | 57 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 18 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Rhyder is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rhyder is most over-represented in Texas: since 2002 it was given 2.3 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 Rhyder with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Rhyder?
Rhyder is a less common spelling of Ryder: SSA has recorded 1,375 Rhyder and 69,088 Ryder since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 71,756 babies since 1880, Rhyder is the second most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 2,892 babies (1.4%), again the second 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 Rhyder
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 Rhyder and names like it
- Compare Rhyder and RyderBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRhyder peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rhyder since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Rhyder.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rhyder alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.