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How popular is the name Rhys?

Births per year, rank history and how many Rhyses are alive today.

Rhys (male), once a common boys' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 389th in 2025 with 106 given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2008, when 1,600 babies were given the name, the 49th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2000, with 1,375 babies given the name that year. It has declined since 2008; the 2025 figure is roughly 7% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 27,000 babies have been named Rhys in England and Wales since 1994. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Rhys is one spelling of a name also recorded as Reece; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Rhys you are most likely to meet is around 29 years old. Half of all Rhyses born in England and Wales are between 19 and 30, and there are at least 62,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 19% chance that at least one of them will be called Rhys.

How many babies are named Rhys each year?

Includes all spellings: Rhys, Reece. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Rhys spelling rank?

Where does the Reece spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.