Rheta

Where Rheta comes from

Rheta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1866
    Rheta Childe Dorr born
    American war correspondent, investigative journalist, political writer
  2. 1893
    First appearance
    #1,437 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1934
    Peak, #526
    151 babies named Rheta — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #884.
  5. 1936
    Rheta DeVries born
    American academic
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rheta Childe Dorr · American war correspondent, investigative journalist, political writer, 1866–1948
  • Rheta DeVries · American academic, 1936–2012
  • Rheta Grimsley Johnson · American journalist, born 1953

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.