How popular is the name Rhonda?

Rhonda ranks 185th among girls' names in US records, with 247,010 births since 1910. Over the past decade it accounts for 265.

Is Rhonda a unisex name?

No. Rhonda is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1965, when 12,909 children were given the name. It has been in use for 115 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Ronda, Ronde. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#185 of girl names

Pronounced R AA1 N D AH0 (ARPABET)

Rhonda is a girls' name, and first appears in 1910. It has been given to 247,010 children — the 185th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 265 births across the past decade, against a peak of 12,909 in a single year. That peak was in 1965.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Ronda and Ronde — because they are pronounced identically.

1965Girls: 12,909Boys: 41

These spellings sound identical to Rhonda and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Rhonda?: Rhonda ranks 185th among girls' names in US records, with 247,010 births since 1910. Over the past decade it accounts for 265.
Is Rhonda a unisex name?: No. Rhonda is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Rhonda most popular?: 1965, when 12,909 children were given the name. It has been in use for 115 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Rhonda spelled?: Ronda, Ronde. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.