Rhema
#1,758 for girls in 2025, 115 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
Given to girls 98.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 115 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,270since 1981
Rhema over time
Rank among girls' names. Rhema has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,758 | 115 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,080 | 92 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #2,288 | 80 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,756 | 62 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #2,638 | 65 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #2,966 | 54 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,222 | 49 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,996 | 37 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,588 | 43 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,650 | 42 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,425 | 46 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,218 | 50 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,915 | 39 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 | — | |
| 2007 | #5,709 | 24 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,804 | 26 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,673 | 20 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | — | |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 | — | |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | — | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | — | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | — | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | — | |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rhema! It came in at #6,804, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Rhema
- 322 spots since 2024 (#2,080 → #1,758)
- 1,208 spots since 2020 (#2,966 → #1,758)
- 1,892 spots since 2015 (#3,650 → #1,758)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 2025 at #1,758 (115 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,976 girls born in 2025 were named Rhema (0.01%)
- 36.9% of all girls named Rhema (468) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 62 | #5,923 (1987) | #8,310 |
| 1990s | 102 | #6,064 (1996) | #8,291 |
| 2000s | 230 | #4,804 (2003) | #5,503 |
| 2010s | 408 | #3,218 (2013) | #3,780 |
| 2020s | 468 | #1,758 (2025) | #2,414 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rhema in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 185,340 of them was named Rhema, which outranked 44.2% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,323Yevette10
- #6,323Yolunda10
- #6,323Zulay10
- #6,804Rhema9
- #6,804Abeni9
- #6,804Adeola9
- #6,804Aidan9
- #7,409Aaren8
- #7,409Aarin8
- #7,409Abigael8
Tied with 604 names at #6,804; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.