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The first name 
Rhea

Rhea is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Rhea is a common name for girls!

The name Rhea isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Rhea ranks 732. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Rhea. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rhea.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Rhea

What does the name 
Rhea mean?

Rhea is a name appearing in Greek mythology and is of unknown meaning. It could mean ‘to flow’ from ‘rheo’ or ‘ground’ from ‘era’.

In Greek mythology, Rhea was... a Titan, the sister and wife of Cronus, and the mother of the Olympian gods Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Hestia.

Rhea has 4 letters 
and begins with an R

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.

With four letters, the name Rhea is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, it follows that if 4.1% of all girls' names start with an R, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Rebecca is the girls’ name starting with R, which is the most common of all.

Other names with 
R, h, e and a

If you take all the letters in the name Rhea – R, h, e and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Rhae or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Rhea

If your name is Rhea and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Rhea

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rhea, you can simply say:

Rocket

Hat

Elephant

Apple

This is how the name Rhea is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Rhea in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Rhea

Rhea

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Rhea

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Rhea is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

R
H
E
A

Have you ever waved the name Rhea

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

R
H
E
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rhea sounds like this: