The name Rhett derives from a surname, an Anglicized form of the Dutch de Raedt, which means ‘advice, counsel’.
Rhett is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Rhett 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 boys names, Rhett ranks 208. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 10 were named Rhett. In the entire USA, approximately 26,945 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Rhett. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Rhett derives from a surname, an Anglicized form of the Dutch de Raedt, which means ‘advice, counsel’.
What is a counsel? In legal contexts, a counsel is a lawyer who represents a client in court. The term can also refer to a group of people who give advice.
The name Rhett may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Rhett is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 1,327 men in Utah is called Rhett. In total, that’s 1,026 people who feel addressed when the name Rhett is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #297 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Rhett as the answer a total of 26,945 times. This places Rhett at #599 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Rhett as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Rhett is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Rhett 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rhett, you can simply say:
Rocket
Hat
Elephant
Tiger
Tiger
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rhett
Rhett
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Rhett sounds like this: