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Rheda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Rheda has been given to 236 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1927, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Rheda, 1963

1 in 792,000

Rheda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rheda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Rheda means

Rheda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Rheda is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Rheda is pronounced /ˈreɪdə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 236 girls were recorded with the name Rheda between 1915 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1927; its best national rank was #2,700 in 1934.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rheda?

Rheda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1963
1 in 792,000
5 of 3,958,455 births
Among girls only
1 in 385,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1963
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,760 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rheda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1963 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 548,760 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rheda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rhedas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rheda was born before 1936 — so the typical Rheda is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
52
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1920s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Rheda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1927 (11)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,700
1934

Spellings of Rheda

Rheda is not the most common spelling — Rhonda is, with 35.6% against Rheda's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rheda is used

Across 1910–2025, Rheda was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 515,325 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rheda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rheda around the world

Where Rheda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1976–2008
    #4,105
    in 2008

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Rheda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,700
1934
Peak year
1927
11 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1963
All-time count
236
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rheda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Rheda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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