Rhian
The girl's name Rhian has been in the national records since 1977, with 1,015 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,000 Rhians are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rhian boys named Rhian
Girls and boys called Rhian
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 889 girls and 126 boys in all, and in 2020 the split was 18 to 8.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 18 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,015
- Estimated living today
- 1,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 2,992nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1977
- Girls / boys
- 889 / 126
How old the living Rhians are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,015 babies given the name since 1977, about 1,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Welsh
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Rhians
- Rhian Brewster (born 2000)English association football player
- Rhian Wilkinson (born 1982)Canadian association football player and coach
- Rhian Ramos (born 1990)Filipina actress, commercial model and singer
People named Rhian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rhian is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rhian is most concentrated in Texas (6.7×), California (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Rhian peaked:
Rhian elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Rhian | 1,590 | 219th |
| Scotland girls | Rhian | 227 | 321st |
| England and Wales boys | Rhian | 104 | 2,301st |
| Ireland girls | Rhian | 34 | 490th |
| Ireland boys | Rhian | 30 | 457th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Rhian | 18 | 344th |
| Scotland boys | Rhian | 3 | 626th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Rhian against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.