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The first name 
Rhoda

Rhoda is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

When two girls called Rhoda meet...

… 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.

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

Rhoda -
evergreen, but special

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.

How popular was Rhoda 2022 among young parents?

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.

Rhoda has 5 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 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.

Other names with 
R, h, o, d and a

If you take all the letters in the name Rhoda – R, h, o, d and a – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Dorah.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Rhoda

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...

This is how you spell the name Rhoda

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

Rocket

Hat

Orange

Dinosaur

Apple

This is how the name Rhoda 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 Rhoda in Braille?

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

Rhoda

Rhoda

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

R
H
O
D
A

Have you ever waved the name Rhoda

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
O
D
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. Rhoda sounds like this: