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Rhaenyra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 108 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,644 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,644 in 2023; #1,853 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rhaenyra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,853 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,644.
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Rhaenyra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 108 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,644 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 127 (2023).
In 2025, 108 US girls were named Rhaenyra, making it the 1,853rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 70 places from #1,923 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 104 girls named Rhaenyra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,644, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 127. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rhaenyra in 4 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2022 with 31 babies. In all, 370 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 370 babies named Rhaenyra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 370 US girls were named Rhaenyra; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 127. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,882 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rhaenyra ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #870 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 8 | #870 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,208 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,212 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,628 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,917 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,418 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,585 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).