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Rhodri

Boys' name

Wheel + king

Rhodri has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2017. 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 2017, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Rhodri, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rhodri: meaning, origin, and history

Wheel + king

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rhodri means

Rhodri means “wheel + king”, associated with rhod and rhi.

Origin, language, and formation

Rhodri is used in Welsh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Rhodri is pronounced /ˈr̥ɔdri/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Rhodri between 2017 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2017; its best national rank was #11,901 in 2017.

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 Rhodri?

Rhodri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rhodri 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rhodri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rhodris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rhodri was born before 2017 — so the typical Rhodri is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Rhodri 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 2017 (6)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,901
2017

Spellings of Rhodri

Rhodri is not the most common spelling — Rhodes is, with 84.2% against Rhodri's 0.34%.

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.

Rhodri around the world

Where Rhodri 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
    1996–2025
    #873
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1982–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rhodri by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,901
2017
Peak year
2017
6 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rhodri

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

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Sibling names for Rhodri

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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