Rhiannon
#1,119 for girls in 2025, 210 births · Last seen for boys in 1982 at #6,385
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 491 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,539since 1974
Rhiannon over time
Rank among girls' names. Rhiannon has never cracked the top 400 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 | #1,119 | 210 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,296 | 178 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,154 | 210 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,120 | 219 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,103 | 224 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,156 | 204 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,239 | 189 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,461 | 150 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,436 | 158 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,567 | 142 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,743 | 120 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,602 | 134 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,888 | 106 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,663 | 128 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,446 | 156 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,420 | 161 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,218 | 204 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,045 | 250 | — | |
| 2007 | #934 | 289 | — | |
| 2006 | #739 | 378 | — | |
| 2005 | #741 | 363 | — | |
| 2004 | #622 | 439 | — | |
| 2003 | #579 | 476 | — | |
| 2002 | #537 | 511 | — | |
| 2001 | #496 | 553 | — | |
| 2000 | #453 | 612 | — | |
| 1999 | #424 | 651 | — | |
| 1998 | #465 | 554 | — | |
| 1997 | #643 | 346 | — | |
| 1996 | #712 | 297 | — | |
| 1995 | #624 | 350 | — | |
| 1994 | #586 | 389 | — | |
| 1993 | #708 | 302 | — | |
| 1992 | #675 | 325 | — | |
| 1991 | #707 | 299 | — | |
| 1990 | #671 | 320 | — | |
| 1989 | #675 | 302 | — | |
| 1988 | #784 | 240 | — | |
| 1987 | #698 | 262 | — | |
| 1986 | #628 | 296 | — | |
| 1985 | #665 | 272 | — | |
| 1984 | #533 | 360 | — | |
| 1983 | #524 | 361 | — | |
| 1982 | #514 | 391 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #513 | 384 | — | |
| 1980 | #499 | 408 | — | |
| 1979 | #483 | 423 | — | |
| 1978 | #435 | 460 | — | |
| 1977 | #418 | 491 | — | |
| 1976 | #593 | 272 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rhiannon! It came in at #8,775, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rhiannon is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Mexico#277 · 1 in 1,359
- Missouri#403 · 1 in 3,124
- Wisconsin#457 · 1 in 4,136
- New Jersey#477 · 1 in 3,631
- Virginia#481 · 1 in 3,860
Best ever in a state: #113 in Alaska, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #277 | 7 | 1 in 1,359 |
| Missouri | #403 | 10 | 1 in 3,124 |
| Wisconsin | #457 | 7 | 1 in 4,136 |
| New Jersey | #477 | 12 | 1 in 3,631 |
| Indiana | #481 | 8 | 1 in 4,015 |
| Virginia | #481 | 9 | 1 in 3,860 |
| Colorado | #485 | 6 | 1 in 3,498 |
| Arizona | #535 | 7 | 1 in 3,490 |
| Minnesota | #544 | 5 | 1 in 5,397 |
| California | #616 | 48 | 1 in 4,482 |
| Pennsylvania | #649 | 11 | 1 in 6,293 |
| North Carolina | #674 | 6 | 1 in 6,210 |
| Ohio | #688 | 9 | 1 in 7,523 |
| Illinois | #698 | 12 | 1 in 6,048 |
| Michigan | #742 | 8 | 1 in 7,246 |
| Texas | #800 | 19 | 1 in 6,783 |
| New York | #826 | 15 | 1 in 7,458 |
| Georgia | #842 | 5 | 1 in 7,839 |
| Florida | #1,100 | 6 | 1 in 11,570 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rhiannon
- 177 spots since 2024 (#1,296 → #1,119)
- 37 spots since 2020 (#1,156 → #1,119)
- 624 spots since 2015 (#1,743 → #1,119)
- Biggest jump: 3,548 spots in 1976 (#4,141 → #593)
- Biggest drop: 195 spots in 2007 (#739 → #934)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1977 at #418 (491 births)
- Births halved by 1988, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1976–2007
- Highest: 1 in 2,725 girls born in 1999 were named Rhiannon (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,654 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #418 in 1977, was only 1 in 3,122 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.2% of all girls named Rhiannon (4,075) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 1,666 | #418 (1977) | #2,474 |
| 1980s | 3,276 | #499 (1980) | #603 |
| 1990s | 3,833 | #424 (1999) | #622 |
| 2000s | 4,075 | #453 (2000) | #736 |
| 2010s | 1,444 | #1,239 (2019) | #1,547 |
| 2020s | 1,245 | #1,103 (2021) | #1,158 |
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.
Rhiannon in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 6,636 of them was named Rhiannon, which outranked 94.7% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).