Rhoads

#11,711 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Rhoads has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #11,711 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Rhoads, 2025

1 in 553,000

Rhoads over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Rhoads?

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 boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,711
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rhoads sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 Rhoads. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rhoadss were born

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

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
76.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
21
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 76.2% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Rhoads 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
+1,916
Places climbed
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
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (6)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,711
2025

Spellings of Rhoads

Rhoads is not the most common spelling — Rhodes is, with 81.8% against Rhoads's 0.63%.

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.

Rhoads by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,711
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,916
Best rank ever
#11,711
2025
Peak year
2025
6 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Rhoads

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

Sibling names for Rhoads

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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