Rhy
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rhy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 11Kas Ly(measured from records)
- NPNepal1 in 47as Rai
- GYGuyana1 in 3.3Kas Rai
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rhy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 47 (inferred from the name graph)
640,674 named Rai, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, as Rai
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rai in IN India, Ly in US United States and 라이 in KR South Korea.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rhy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | 640,674as Rai | 1 in 47 | 641K | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | 93,858as Rai | 1 in 14K | 94K | Rai | 20 |
| US United States | — | 29,891as Ly | 1 in 11K | 34K | Ly | 34 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,410as Rye | 1 in 3.9K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 828as Rai | 1 in 46K | 615 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 527as Rye | 1 in 11K | 527 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 225as Rai | 1 in 3.3K | 225 | — | — |
| KR South Korea | #496 | — | — | — | 라이 | 51 |
640,674 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Rhy is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, three friends (are like) the fir, ham boo and apricot. sting
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Welsh, too (more than enough)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Rhy?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Rhy a male or female name?
- Rhy 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.
- In which country does Rhy have the most bearers?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 641 thousand people named Rai, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rhy most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Rhy itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Nepal's: the national register counts about 1 in 47 people named Rai.
- How common is the name Rhy?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 640,674 people named Rai in 2021, about 1 in 47 residents.
- How common is Rhy compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Rhy is the 496th most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rhy?
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/rhyThe 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, “Rhy” — the 496th most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.