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How popular is “Rhys” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rhys” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Rhys” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Rhys” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Rhys” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Rhys” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Rhys” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rhys” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1929 8 0.000003649 8 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 11 0.000002896 11 -100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 -100%
1954 13 0.000003266 13 -100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 -100%
1956 17 0.000004123 17 -100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 -100%
1958 11 0.000002661 11 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1960 14 0.00000337 14 -100%
1961 16 0.000003863 16 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 -100%
1964 13 0.000003344 13 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 10 0.00000296 10 -100%
1969 11 0.000003165 11 -100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1979 23 0.000006913 23 -100%
1980 27 0.000007839 27 -100%
1981 24 0.000006938 24 -100%
1982 27 0.000007697 27 -100%
1983 23 0.000006641 23 -100%
1984 30 0.000008599 30 -100%
1985 41 0.000011487 41 -100%
1986 29 0.000008153 29 -100%
1987 40 0.000011094 40 -100%
1988 41 0.000011096 41 -100%
1989 32 0.000008324 32 -100%
1990 51 0.000012903 51 -100%
1991 52 0.00001335 52 -100%
1992 39 0.000010153 39 -100%
1993 68 0.000018036 68 -100%
1994 62 0.000016677 5 57 -84%
1995 62 0.00001693 62 -100%
1996 84 0.000023031 8 76 -81%
1997 85 0.000023443 8 77 -81%
1998 105 0.000028547 7 98 -87%
1999 132 0.000035735 16 116 -76%
2000 149 0.000039419 15 134 -80%
2001 165 0.000044078 20 145 -76%
2002 163 0.000043603 19 144 -77%
2003 166 0.000043658 14 152 -83%
2004 203 0.000053129 23 180 -77%
2005 197 0.000051237 20 177 -80%
2006 225 0.000056873 20 205 -82%
2007 303 0.000075794 41 262 -73%
2008 392 0.000099729 33 359 -83%
2009 479 0.000125387 23 456 -90%
2010 592 0.000160184 42 550 -86%
2011 578 0.000158019 39 539 -87%
2012 615 0.000168154 39 576 -87%
2013 586 0.000160739 26 560 -91%
2014 610 0.000164581 30 580 -90%
2015 582 0.000157259 22 560 -92%
2016 634 0.000172813 22 612 -93%
2017 648 0.000181198 30 618 -91%
2018 658 0.00018715 31 627 -91%
2019 729 0.00021003 37 692 -90%
2020 751 0.000224811 38 713 -90%
2021 805 0.000237607 55 750 -86%
2022 795 0.000234989 62 733 -84%
2023 991 0.000299288 61 930 -88%
2024 989 0.000297131 43 946 -91%

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