Rhodesia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rhodesia has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1977, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Rhodesia, 1992
1 in 640,000
Rhodesia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rhodesia?
Rhodesia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1992
- 1 in 640,000
- 6 of 3,839,369 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 307,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1992
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 443,542 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rhodesia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 443,542 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rhodesia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rhodesias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rhodesia was born before 1977 — so the typical Rhodesia is around 48 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 70.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 95
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 70.5% of all recorded uses (67).
Is Rhodesia 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
- —
- 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 1977 (12)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.0% average annual change
Rhodesia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rhodesia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rhodesia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.