Rhythm
Rhythm is given to both girls and boys: 62 girls and 47 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,770 among girls’ names and #2,747 among boys’, #3,352 among all names counting both); 1,212 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Rhythm and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rhythm by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rhythm?
#2,770 among girls’ names, 2025
Rhythm rose from #5,626 in 2015 to #2,770 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 13.4 to 38.6 per million.
109 babies in 2025, the peak
Rhythm peaked in 2025, when 109 babies were given it (62 girls, #2,770 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 57 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,770 | 47 | #2,747 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,917 | 35 | #3,376 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,880 | 47 | #2,762 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,156 | 38 | #3,201 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,379 | 43 | #2,904 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,880 | 34 | #3,328 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,437 | 42 | #2,927 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,479 | 36 | #3,215 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,559 | 37 | #3,179 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,960 | 39 | #3,047 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,626 | 33 | #3,417 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,240 | 27 | #3,864 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,113 | 23 | #4,283 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,130 | 13 | #6,566 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,951 | 22 | #4,472 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,070 | 20 | #4,800 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,367 | 14 | #6,358 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,373 | 7 | #10,770 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 5 | #13,961 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,407 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,871 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,341 | 6 | #10,577 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #10,383 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #10,056 |
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 Rhythm a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,212 Americans recorded as Rhythm, 52% are girls and 48% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rhythm: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rhythm, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,212 Americans ever recorded as Rhythm. The median Rhythm alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 646 people named Rhythm (294 women and girls, 352 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 652 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 177 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rhythm
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 Rhythm and names like it
- Compare Rhythm and HudsynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRhythm peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rhythm since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rhythm.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rhythm alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.