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Rhona

Girls' name

Possibly rough island

Rhona has been given to 1,687 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1951, with 89 recorded.

Babies named Rhona, 2020

1 in 557,000

Rhona over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rhona: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly rough island

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rhona means

Rhona may mean “rough island”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rhona is used in Scottish.

Origin, language, and formation

Rhona is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Rhona is pronounced /ˈɹəʊnə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,687 girls were recorded with the name Rhona between 1915 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 89 in 1951; its best national rank was #993 in 1951.

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 Rhona?

Rhona had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rhona 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rhona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rhonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rhona was born before 1954 — so the typical Rhona is around 71 today.

Median birth year
1954
About 71 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,083
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (516).

Is Rhona 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 1951 (89)
Years since peak
74
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#993
1951

Spellings of Rhona

Rhona is not the most common spelling — Rhonda is, with 19.2% against Rhona's 0.16%.

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.

Where Rhona is used

Across 1910–2025, Rhona was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 155,973 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in 100,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rhona has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rhona around the world

Where Rhona 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2024
    #476
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2001–2001
    #343
    in 2001
  • Ireland
    1964–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1955–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rhona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#993
1951
Peak year
1951
89 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
1,687
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rhona

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

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Sibling names for Rhona

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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