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Rhodes: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 511 in 2025. Its best rank was #575 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 92% of babies named Rhodes in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#575 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Rhodes: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 511 boys in 2025. Peak: #575 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 511 (2025).
In 2025, 511 US boys were named Rhodes, making it the 575th most common boys’ name of the year, up 40 places from #615 in 2024. That is 46 more than the 465 boys named Rhodes in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #575, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 511. For comparison, it was #2,187 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rhodes in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 7 babies. In all, 2,960 US babies have been given the name, 7.4% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,112 babies named Rhodes.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,257 US boys were named Rhodes; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 511. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,343 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rhodes ranked highest in Maine in 2025, at #228 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Rhoades are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rhoades (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rhodes in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 6 | #228 | — |
| Tennessee | 26 | #345 | — |
| Georgia | 31 | #384 | #1,080 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #392 | — |
| South Carolina | 13 | #410 | #736 |
| Kansas | 9 | #423 | — |
| North Carolina | 26 | #426 | — |
| Colorado | 14 | #435 | — |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #453 | — |
| Utah | 10 | #464 | — |
| Indiana | 15 | #480 | — |
| Connecticut | 6 | #484 | — |
| Iowa | 7 | #488 | — |
| Nebraska | 5 | #493 | — |
| Alabama | 10 | #518 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #546 | — |
| Michigan | 15 | #564 | — |
| Minnesota | 9 | #571 | — |
| Louisiana | 8 | #583 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #585 | — |
| California | 51 | #586 | #2,214 |
| Missouri | 10 | #587 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #613 | — |
| Virginia | 12 | #618 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #625 | — |
| Texas | 49 | #627 | — |
| Ohio | 13 | #704 | — |
| Illinois | 12 | #742 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #766 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #766 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #787 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #794 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #803 | — |
| New York | 16 | #878 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #892 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,376 | 511 | #575 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,684 | 465 | #615 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,262 | 376 | #708 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,881 | 250 | #927 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,625 | 206 | #1,044 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,420 | 125 | #1,395 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,205 | 107 | #1,572 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,518 | 84 | #1,817 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,545 | 73 | #1,971 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,307 | 60 | #2,251 |
| 2015 | — | — | 63 | #2,187 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,267 | 48 | #2,571 |
| 2013 | — | — | 42 | #2,798 |
| 2012 | — | — | 37 | #3,102 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #5,151 |
| 2010 | — | — | 22 | #4,487 |
| 2009 | — | — | 15 | #6,021 |
| 2008 | — | — | 21 | #4,671 |
| 2007 | — | — | 12 | #6,990 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,420 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #6,148 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,405 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #8,152 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,394 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #7,133 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,976 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,862 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,150 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,536 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,644 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,926 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,373 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,462 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,463 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,911 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #4,053 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,181 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,446 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,639 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,708 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,647 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,669 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,447 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,832 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,443 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,839 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,314 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #3,132 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,334 |
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).