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Rheta

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Rheta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 527th, in 1934.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1934151 births
Best rank
#527in 1934
Since 1893
1,200people given the name
Babies named Rheta, by year of birthgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

1,200 girls have been named Rheta in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1934, with 151 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 151 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1930s alone account for 39%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Rheta
1890s5
1900s5
1910s129
1920s179
1930s462
1940s187
1950s165
1960s63
1970s5

In 1934, its biggest year

Rheta was the 527th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1934 were Mary, Betty, Barbara, Shirley and Dorothy. See all of 1934.

Names that rose and fell with Rheta

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.