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Rhema: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 115 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,766 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Rhema in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,766 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Rhema: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 115 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,766 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 115 (2025).
In 2025, 115 US girls were named Rhema, making it the 1,766th most common girls’ name of the year, up 329 places from #2,095 in 2024. That is 23 more than the 92 girls named Rhema in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,766, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 115. For comparison, it was #3,692 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rhema in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 9 babies. In all, 1,290 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 488 babies named Rhema.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 634 US girls were named Rhema; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 115. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,976 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rhema ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #965 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 7 | #965 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,039 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,173 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,209 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,245 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,323 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,338 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,518 | #3,185 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,632 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 115 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 2024 | 92 | #2,095 | 7 | #10,688 |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,779 | 7 | #10,616 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,667 | 6 | #11,838 |
| 2020 | 54 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,265 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,989 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,054 | — | — |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 2015 | 42 | #3,692 | — | — |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,255 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,977 | — | — |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,551 | — | — |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,475 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,854 | — | — |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,249 | — | — |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,865 | — | — |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,066 | — | — |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,189 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,159 | — | — |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,919 | — | — |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,849 | — | — |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,522 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,892 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,329 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,917 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,869 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,314 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,408 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,489 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,344 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,575 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,025 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,088 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,968 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,030 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,234 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,318 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,899 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,858 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,959 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,241 | — | — |
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).