Rhys — #354 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Rhys

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,547 babies named Rhys between 1929 and 2024, spanning 96 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rhys currently holds the #354 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 946 babies received it in a single year. Rhys is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 849 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rhys performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,914 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Rhys shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,474 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Rhys in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rhys in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 13,547 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.