Rhiannan
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rhiannan has been given to 171 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 1998, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Rhiannan, 2009
1 in 546,000
Rhiannan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rhiannan?
Rhiannan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 546,000
- 7 of 3,820,315 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 262,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 378,293 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rhiannan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 378,293 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rhiannan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rhiannans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rhiannan was born before 1997 — so the typical Rhiannan is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 40.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 171
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (70).
Is Rhiannan 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (14)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.5% average annual change
Spellings of Rhiannan
Rhiannan is not the most common spelling — Rhiannon is, with 45.4% against Rhiannan's 0.50%.
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.
Rhiannan around the world
Where Rhiannan 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 & Wales1996–2010#5,707in 2010
- Scotland1996–2009#668in 2009
- Ireland1998–1998#498in 1998
- South Australia1983–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rhiannan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rhiannan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rhiannan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.