Rwanda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rwanda has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 5 recorded.
Babies named Rwanda, 1973
1 in 603,000
Rwanda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rwanda?
Rwanda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1973
- 1 in 603,000
- 5 of 3,016,706 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1973
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,205 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rwanda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1973 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,205 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rwanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rwandas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rwanda was born before 1951 — so the typical Rwanda is around 74 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Rwanda 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 1951 (5)
- Years since peak
- 74
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Rwanda
Rwanda is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 54.9% against Rwanda's <0.01%.
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.
Rwanda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rwanda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rwanda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.