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Rheia

#14,558 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Rhea

Rheia has been given to 94 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #14,558 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Rheia, 2025

1 in 553,000

Rheia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rheia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rhea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rheia means

Rheia is a variant of Rhea.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rheia is used in Greek Mythology.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rhea.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 94 girls were recorded with the name Rheia between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2021; its best national rank was #6,121 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,840 in 2020 to #14,558 in 2025.

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.

How common is Rheia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,558
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rheia 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rheia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rheias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rheia was born before 2021 — so the typical Rheia is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
75.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
94
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 75.5% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Rheia 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
−3,636
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,718
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
30.0%
Peak was 2021 (20)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,121
2021

Spellings of Rheia

Rheia is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 42.4% against Rheia's 0.02%.

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.

Rheia around the world

Where Rheia 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.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2019–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • France
    2025–2025
    #7,152
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rheia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,558
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,718
Best rank ever
#6,121
2021
Peak year
2021
20 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
94
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Rheia

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

RhemiRhettRhenAreiaRhesaRhenaRheyaRheganSereiaDeiaRheynaRhedaAmeiaRhevaRhemyEleiaRhenleyZaleiaRheannNaleiaRhendaRhemaRhettaMireia

Sibling names for Rheia

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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