How rare is the name Rhoda?

11,868 people in the United States have the first name Rhoda, about 1 in 25,449. It ranks #2,212 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

RHODA

#2,212

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,868
About
1 in 25,449
This common or more
79%
Who bears it

Of the 11,868 people named Rhoda, 70.6% reported their origin as White, 17.1% as Black and 6.6% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Rhoda peaked in 1926, when 547 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1926
Births that year
547
In 2025*
47 ▼91%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 26,069 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Rhoda by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #313. The largest share of babies named Rhoda, 30.3%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#3131,024
1890s#3521,363
1900s#4431,325
1910s#5672,943
1920s#5624,761
1930s#5814,036
1940s#8142,819
1950s#1,0022,615
1960s#1,2711,925
1970s#1,7661,215
1980s#3,389510
1990s#4,831416
2000s#6,469379
2010s#6,267430
2020s#5,533308
Before 19019.7%
Greatest Generation 1901–2730.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4525.9%
Baby boom 1946–6418.1%
Generation X 1965–808.4%
Millennials 1981–962.8%
Generation Z 1997–122.4%
2013 and later2.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Rhoda is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Rhoda has been most common in New York (3.4×), Pennsylvania (2.5×), and Kentucky (2.3×), and least common in Arizona (0.14×).

17,080 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Rhoda

#2,210 Mauro · 11,897#2,211 Lorene · 11,880#2,213 Evie · 11,863#2,214 Dewey · 11,845

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Rhoda, most common first.

#28,745 Rhode · 311#42,480 Rheda · 169#44,535 Rhody · 155

Also a last name

As a last name, Rhoda ranks #23,940 of 156,621, with 1,091 people. See Rhoda as a last name

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