Rhian

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rhian: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rhian: Recorded since 1991, it reached #219 in 1996, and it stood at #3,318 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
75times a registrar ranked it
34years from first to last
#219highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Rhian's record

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list — an observation about those lists, not about the name. Names published across category lists

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#219
1997	#265
1998	#273
1999	#317
2000	#304
2001	#352
2002	#380
2003	#405
2004	#500
2005	#553
2006	#533
2007	#666
2008	#699
2009	#932
2010	#1093
2011	#894
2012	#998
2013	#900
2014	#1120
2015	#1601
2016	#1525
2017	#2201
2018	#2499
2019	#2040
2020	#3447
2021	#4634
2023	#3598
2024	#3318

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2010: #430 among girls in Northern Ireland, #910 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1093 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1991–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1991
First recorded at #515 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1991 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #219 among girls in England and Wales, in 1996 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3318 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rhian appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 28 ranked years and 1,586 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1991.

Rhian across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rhian's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#2254 (2002)	#5119 (2024)	25 of 29	104 (1996–2024)	9 (2021)
England and Wales · Girls	#219 (1996)	#219 (1996)	#3318 (2024)	28 of 29	1,586 (1996–2024)	192 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#515 (1991)	#439 (1999)	#910 (2010)	10 of 20	34 (1991–2010)	5 (2003)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (1997)	#344 (1999)	#430 (2010)	6 of 14	18 (1997–2010)	3 (1997)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#601 (2008)	#457 (2012)	#541 (2016)	6 of 9	30 (2008–2016)	7 (2012)

Rhian by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rhian in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	586	4 of 10	147
2000sbusiest	724	10 of 10	72
2010s	253	10 of 10	25
2020s	23	4 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 72 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1996 and 1997, when recorded births fell by 48, from 192 to 144.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rhian appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1991 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #219 in England and Wales in 1996.

Rhian's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3318	7	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1525	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1601	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1120	31	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#900	41	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#998	36	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#894	40	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1093	30	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#932	35	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#699	51	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#666	52	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#533	68	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#553	60	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#500	66	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#405	89	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#380	88	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#352	96	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#304	119	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#317	107	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#273	143	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#265	144	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#219	192	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#430	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#344	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#541	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#554	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#457	7	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#540	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	5	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	4	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1991 and 2024, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #219, first reached in 1996.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 192 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 6 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Rhiann · #671, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Bryn · #219, 29y
Kayley · #219, 30y
Samara · #219, 29y
Amari · #218, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Bryn · #219, 29y
Ema · #219, 29y
Kayley · #219, 30y
Samara · #219, 29y

Rhian was ranked #219 in England and Wales · Girls in 1996. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rhian and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rhian without appearing here.

Rhian moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2499 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2040 and #5591.
Ada Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4805 and #4805 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2301 and #4789.
Herman Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4632 and #3895 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2693 and #4749.
Brittany Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4634 and #3519 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Rhian

Diane Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #3899 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #2499.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2040 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #1313.
Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2301 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #2018.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2040 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #1939.

Moved the opposite way to Rhian

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rhian went from #219 to #3318 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rhian went from #2863 to #5119 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rhian went from #2863 to #5119 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rhian went from #2863 to #5119 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.

Moved the same way as Rhian

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rhian went from #2863 to #5119 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rhian went from #219 to #3318 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rhian went from #2863 to #5119 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rhian went from #219 to #3318 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1991 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #219 in England and Wales in 1996. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rhian

Rhian at a glance

What stands out in Rhian's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rhian across 5 official records

Rhian by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rhian appears in

Popularity data

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What stands out in Rhian's record

Rhian across 5 official records

Rhian by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rhian appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Rhian

Rhian and the names beside it

Rhian moved ahead of

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