Name meaning & stats
Rhys
Rhys (Welsh origin). 15,213 US babies since 1940, peak 2024.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Welsh
In US birth records
Peak year: 2024
15,213 US babies were named Rhys between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Rhys (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 88% of the family
- Rhys 88%
- Reis 5%
- Rhyse 2%
- Reiss 2%
- Reise 1%
- Ryze 1%
- Reice 1%
- Riese 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2024)