Rhett
About 36,920 American babies have been named Rhett since 1917, most of them around 2021. In 2025 it ranked 188th. About 36,000 Rhetts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rhett boys named Rhett
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 36,920
- Estimated living today
- 36,000
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 149th
- Rank in 2025
- 188th
- First recorded
- 1917
- Girls / boys
- 251 / 36,669
How old the living Rhetts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 36,920 babies given the name since 1917, about 36,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 27,000 of them are children and 510 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Name of a South Carolina family, anglicized from Dutch de Raedt, from Middle Dutch raet (“advice”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Rhetts
- Rhett Reese (born 2000)American screenwriter
People named Rhett with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rhett is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rhett is most concentrated in Utah (4.2×), Idaho (3.6×), Louisiana (2.3×), Montana (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Rhett peaked:
Rhett elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Rhett | 140 | 1,635th |
| Scotland boys | Rhett | 3 | 762nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Rhett against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.