Rhonda
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rhonda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Modern coinage explained as Welsh rhon (“pike, lance”) + da (“good”).
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.3K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.3K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #591 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 551 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Modern coinage explained as Welsh rhon (“pike, lance”) + da (“good”)
Sources 3
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rhonda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Rhonda | 14 |
| US United States | #241 | 173,379 | 1 in 1.9K | 173K | Rhonda | 551 |
| GB United Kingdom | #356 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 11 | Rhonda | 178 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #593 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Rhonda | 4 |
| CA Canada | #238 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 1 | Rhonda | 247 |
| SG Singapore | #152 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Rhonda | 30 |
| IE Ireland | #173 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Rhonda | 52 |
| NZ New Zealand | #237 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 14 | Rhonda | 89 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)
Rhonda is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: of recent origin, apparently a blend of RHODA and RHONA . It is now generally taken to be a Welsh name composed of the elements rhon pike, lance, as in RHONWEN , + - da good, as in GLENDA . The Rhondda valley in South Wales was probably also a factor in making this connection, although it derives from a river name of completely different etymology.
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)
- Rhonda Flemingb. 1923USAmerican actress (1923–2020)
- Rhonda Byrneb. 1951AUAustralian writer and producer
- Rhonda Shearb. 1954USAmerican actress, television personality, and comedian
- Rhonda Jo Pettyb. 1955USAmerican pornographic actress
- LaChanzeb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, singer, and dancer
- Rhonda Vincentb. 1962USAmerican musician
- Rhonda Tollefsonb. 1963USAmerican filmmaker
- Rhonda Ross Kendrickb. 1971USAmerican singer and actress
- Rhonda Smithb. 1973USAmerican basketball player (born 1973)
- Rhonda Dentb. 1978CACanadian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Rhonda mean, and where does it come from?
- Modern coinage explained as Welsh rhon (“pike, lance”) + da (“good”) Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Rhonda a male or female name?
- Rhonda 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 Rhonda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Rhonda in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rhonda.
- What are other forms of the name Rhonda?
- In the etymology graph, Ronda is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Rhonda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 173,379 people named Rhonda in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Rhonda compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Rhonda is the 152nd most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rhondaThe 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, “Rhonda” — the 152nd most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.