Rhett
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An American surname from Dutch
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rhett is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 15K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 22K
- CACanada≈1 in 65K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 408 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
21,549 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An American surname from Dutch.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rhett 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 21,549 | 1 in 15K | 21K | Rhett | 408 |
| CN China | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Rhett | 15 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 5 | Rhett | 134 |
| PH Philippines | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Rhett | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 102K | listed | Rhett | 89 |
| CA Canada | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 65K | 37 | Rhett | 110 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Rhett | 27 |
21,549 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Rhett is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, river, Europe; dept, France
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Rhin [Rhine]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
American English: transferred use of an American surname derived from Dutch de Raedt , from Middle Dutch raet advice. It was invented for the character of Rhett Butler in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936). Like some of the other names in that novel (cf. ASHLEY , CAREEN , and SCARLETT ), it has attained a modest currency in the real world. Feminine: Rhetta (a recent coinage) .
as a word
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)
- Rhett Daviesb. 1949GBBritish record producer
- Rhett Forresterb. 1956USAmerican musician (1956-1994)
- Rhett Akinsb. 1969USAmerican singer and songwriter
- Rhett James McLaughlinb. 1977USAmerican YouTuber
- Rhett Fisherb. 1980USAmerican actor
- Rhett Bernsteinb. 1987USNorwegian association football player
- Rhett Ellisonb. 1988USAmerican football player
- Rhett Reeseb. 2000USAmerican screenwriter
- Rhett LawrenceUSAmerican record producer
- Rhett Moritaactor
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 41 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Is Rhett a male or female name?
- Rhett is a male 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.
- What does the name Rhett mean, and where does it come from?
- An American surname from Dutch. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rhett have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Rhett, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rhett.
- Where is Rhett most common?
- Rhett is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rhett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,549 people named Rhett in 2020, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Rhett?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɛt/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Rhett?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rhettThe 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, “Rhett”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.