Rhoda
Feminine · “rose”
Rhoda is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 26,057 girls against 12 boys since 1880.
Rhoda is Greek for rose, and it belongs to a woman in the book of Acts who is remembered for one very human moment: she was so delighted to hear Peter at the gate that she ran to tell everyone and left him standing outside.
How old is the name Rhoda?
Rhoda was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Rhoda alive today was born around 1933, making them about 92 years old. About 10,000 people named Rhoda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rhoda most popular?
Rhoda peaked in 1881, reaching #159 nationally. Today it ranks #3296, 3,137 places below that high. See the whole 1881 chart.
Where it comes from
From rhodon to Rhoda
The story of Rhoda
The name is in the New Testament, which is what carried it into English use: Puritan families in the seventeenth century took names straight from scripture, and Rhoda arrived with Keziah, Tabitha and Priscilla in the same movement. It traveled to America with them and stayed in ordinary use for three centuries, quietly, without ever becoming fashionable enough to date sharply.
Meaning
rose
From Greek rhodon, 'rose'. The island of Rhodes takes its name from the same root, and the connection between the flower and the island was already being made in antiquity.
How the name formed
- rhodon
- Rhoda
Related forms: Rhode
Pronouncing Rhoda
ROH-duh
Two syllables, stress on the first. The h after the R is silent in English.
Nicknames for Rhoda
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1924503 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #159reached in 1881
- Change vs 2022
- −7.8%47 in 2025, from 51
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Rhoda in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rhode in Greek — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana.
Rhodas among us
people named Rhoda are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 34,197 born in 2025 was named Rhoda
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Rhoda sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Rhoda is headed
Rhoda should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Rhoda beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Rhoda in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A flower meaning that is not the flower name itself, so it carries the sense without the obviousness of Rose.
- Scriptural without being one of the heavily used biblical names.
- Two syllables and a soft ending, the shape most current girls' names share.
- An American sitcom of the 1970s fixed this name to one character for a whole generation of viewers.
- The silent h means the written form and the spoken form part company, and it will be spelled Roda by people who have only heard it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rhodas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 10,000 people named Rhoda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Rhoda in 2025?
- Rhoda ranks #3296 among US girl names in 2025, with 47 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Rhoda?
- About 1 in every 34,197 US girls born in 2025 was named Rhoda — 47 in all.
- Will my child share the name Rhoda with classmates?
- Rhoda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Rhoda
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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