Rhianon
Rhianon is a name with a single cultural origin: Welsh.
- Welsh
Meaning & Origin of Rhianon
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Rhianon is a name with a single cultural origin: Welsh.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Welsh
The Story of Rhianon
The earliest SSA record of Rhianon as a baby girl name dates back to 1976, when 7 babies received it. 1978 was its biggest year on record, with 25 newborns named Rhianon — #3,098 in the national rankings. About 40% of every Rhianon on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Rhianon last appeared in the published SSA data in 2008, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 355 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Rhianon
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About the name Rhianon
Rhianon is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1976 and has accumulated 355 births in the dataset. Rhianon's peak popularity came in 1978 when it ranked #3,098. Use the chart and map above to compare Rhianon's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.