Rhoda is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Rhoda is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Rhoda. In the SmartGenius ranking, Rhoda is #3,122 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 16,979 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Rhoda. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Rhoda annualy. This means that there have been girls named Rhoda who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Rhoda have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Rhoda even more than any other time: in 1881, it holds its present record of rank #156 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rhoda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Rhoda has never been ranked higher than #156. In 2022, she rivaled the 2,935 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 48 girls named Rhoda were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Rhoda were born, there have been 37 newborns who received this name.
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 five letters, the name Rhoda 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.
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.
If your name is Rhoda 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 Rhoda, you can simply say:
Rocket
Hat
Orange
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rhoda
Rhoda
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. Rhoda sounds like this: