Meaning not yet researched.
Rhys: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 778 in 2025. Its best rank was #353 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #353 in 2024; #412 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Rhys in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#412 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #353.
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Rhys: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 778 boys in 2025. Peak: #353 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 952 (2024).
In 2025, 778 US boys were named Rhys, making it the 412th most common boys’ name of the year, down 59 places from #353 in 2024. That is 174 fewer than the 952 boys named Rhys in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #353, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 952. For comparison, it was #514 in 2015 and #3,262 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rhys in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1929 with 8 babies. In all, 15,221 US babies have been given the name, 5.8% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,233 babies named Rhys.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,407 US boys were named Rhys; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 952. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,195 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rhys ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #137 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Rhyse, Rhyis and Rhyus are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rhyse (330), Rhyis (25), Rhyus (16), Rhyze (13), Rhyz (7), Rhyes (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 Rhys 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 8 | #137 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 92 | #138 | #309 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #174 | — |
| Virginia | 36 | #244 | #773 |
| Massachusetts | 22 | #273 | #359 |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #281 | #451 |
| New Jersey | 29 | #303 | #451 |
| Washington | 24 | #319 | #394 |
| Oregon | 13 | #322 | #451 |
| Maryland | 17 | #326 | #441 |
| Indiana | 22 | #348 | #475 |
| North Carolina | 31 | #369 | #521 |
| New York | 47 | #380 | #498 |
| Arizona | 18 | #427 | #397 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #433 | #380 |
| Iowa | 8 | #438 | #410 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #443 | #422 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #449 | #728 |
| Ohio | 24 | #451 | #506 |
| Illinois | 24 | #456 | #518 |
| Kansas | 8 | #459 | #458 |
| Utah | 10 | #465 | — |
| Colorado | 12 | #491 | #333 |
| California | 61 | #507 | #574 |
| Florida | 34 | #527 | #561 |
| Michigan | 16 | #535 | #587 |
| Missouri | 11 | #546 | #436 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #563 | — |
| Louisiana | 8 | #584 | #616 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #594 | #737 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #604 | #689 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #612 | — |
| Texas | 49 | #628 | #705 |
| Georgia | 14 | #700 | #773 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,892 | 778 | #412 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,633 | 952 | #353 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,816 | 931 | #353 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,780 | 733 | #426 |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,029 | 750 | #413 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,828 | 713 | #419 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,986 | 692 | #440 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,539 | 627 | #463 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,674 | 619 | #477 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,946 | 612 | #495 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,989 | 560 | #514 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,748 | 580 | #485 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,285 | 560 | #490 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,978 | 576 | #475 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,899 | 539 | #487 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,736 | 550 | #471 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,053 | 456 | #578 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,623 | 359 | #676 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,903 | 263 | #811 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,549 | 205 | #925 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,190 | 177 | #984 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,512 | 180 | #941 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,911 | 152 | #1,038 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,075 | 144 | #1,059 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,765 | 145 | #1,022 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,077 | 134 | #1,068 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,422 | 116 | #1,140 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,107 | 98 | #1,245 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,580 | 77 | #1,420 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,311 | 76 | #1,397 |
| 1995 | — | — | 62 | #1,545 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,193 | 57 | #1,630 |
| 1993 | — | — | 68 | #1,415 |
| 1992 | — | — | 39 | #2,031 |
| 1991 | — | — | 52 | #1,627 |
| 1990 | — | — | 51 | #1,629 |
| 1989 | — | — | 32 | #2,192 |
| 1988 | — | — | 41 | #1,728 |
| 1987 | — | — | 40 | #1,704 |
| 1986 | — | — | 29 | #2,044 |
| 1985 | — | — | 41 | #1,587 |
| 1984 | — | — | 30 | #1,876 |
| 1983 | — | — | 23 | #2,257 |
| 1982 | — | — | 27 | #2,047 |
| 1981 | — | — | 24 | #2,186 |
| 1980 | — | — | 27 | #2,042 |
| 1979 | — | — | 23 | #2,219 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,615 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,490 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,464 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,613 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,834 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,169 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,293 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,240 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,824 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,875 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,482 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,937 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,192 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,388 |
| 1963 | — | — | 13 | #2,393 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,813 |
| 1961 | — | — | 16 | #2,127 |
| 1960 | — | — | 14 | #2,294 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,454 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,612 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,983 |
| 1956 | — | — | 17 | #2,004 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,117 |
| 1954 | — | — | 13 | #2,295 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,502 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,479 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,645 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,262 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,976 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,082 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,659 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,912 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,193 |
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).