Rhyen
Rhyen was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,748 among girls’ names; 213 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhyen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rhyen?
#16,748 among girls’ names, 2025
Rhyen fell from #11,644 in 2015 to #16,748 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.1 per million.
20 babies in 2016, the peak
Rhyen peaked in 2016, when 20 babies were given it (12 girls, #9,315 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,748 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,253 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,198 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,179 | 6 | #11,706 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,311 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,264 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,315 | 8 | #9,488 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,644 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,722 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,081 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | #9,040 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,203 | 6 | #11,867 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,589 | 6 | #12,149 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,554 | 8 | #9,662 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,206 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,614 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,147 | 6 | #11,040 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,144 | 5 | #12,345 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,316 | 6 | #10,381 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,005 | under 5 |
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 Rhyen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 213 Americans recorded as Rhyen, 76% are girls and 24% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rhyen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhyen, and how old are they?
An estimated 211 Americans named Rhyen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 239 people named Rhyen (136 women and girls, 103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 185 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,482 babies since 1880, Rhyen is the seventh most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 142 babies (3.5%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Rhyen
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 Rhyen and names like it
- Compare Rhyen and RhyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRhyen peaked in 2016.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Rhyen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rhyen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.