Rhea
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A large flightless bird of the order Rheiformes, native to South America
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹiːə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rhea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 24K
- USUnited States1 in 26K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 400 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A large flightless bird of the order Rheiformes, native to South America.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Rhea, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rhea counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #280 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 53K | Rhea | 146 |
| CN China | — | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Rhea | 15 |
| US United States | — | 12,677 | 1 in 26K | 12K | Rhea | 400 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 47 | Rhea | 169 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 7 | Rhea | 142 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #860 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Rhea | 62 |
| SG Singapore | #909 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Rhea | 45 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Rhea | 12 |
| GY Guyana | — | 66 | 1 in 11K | 66 | — | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rhea is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, /. Greek goddess, mother of Zeus;
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, satellite of Saturn; S. American
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, mother of Romulus and Remus
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Rhea Silvia [Ilia]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, flightless bird
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rhea Mitchellb. 1890USAmerican actress (1890-1957)
- Rhea Chilesb. 1930USAmerican politician (1930-2015)
- Rhea Seddonb. 1947USsurgeon and former NASA astronaut
- Rhea Perlmanb. 1948USAmerican actress
- Deborah Rhea Seehornb. 1972USAmerican actress (born 1972)
- Rhea Harderb. 1976DEGerman actress
- Rhea Durhamb. 1978USAmerican model
- Rhea Kapoorb. 1987INIndian film producer
- Rhea Chakrabortyb. 1992INIndian actress
- Rhea Sharmab. 1995INIndian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,119 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 452 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 194 | #2,119 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 76 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 66 | #528 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 47 | #35 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 42 | #102 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 7 | #583 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2001 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Rhea?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹiːə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Rhea mean, and where does it come from?
- A large flightless bird of the order Rheiformes, native to South America. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Rhea a male or female name?
- Rhea is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Rhea have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Rhea in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rhea.
- How common is the name Rhea?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,677 people named Rhea in 2020, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Rhea compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Rhea is the 280th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rhea?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rheaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rhea” — the 280th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.