Rhyen
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RY-an
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Rhyen is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “possibly little king”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Rhyen mean?
Irish: spelling of Rhyan, itself a spelling variant of Ryan, from the surname Ó Riain
“possibly little king”
Ryan comes from the Irish surname Ó Riain; the link to rí, 'king', is traditional but uncertain.
Meaning borrowed from Rhyan.
Is Rhyen a girl's or a boy's name?
Rhyen is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rhyen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Rhyen, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Rhyen in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 646 girls in the US were given Rhyen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #491, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Rhyen in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
Names like Rhyen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan Devyn Rowan Keegan Reagan Braelynn Brynlee Brynn Regan Cassidy Rylynn Kerrigan
Other spellings of Rhyen
Names related to Rhyen
More Irish names
Oscar Rory Maeve Finn Aiden Nolan Quinn Orla Cody Erin Ronan Connor Declan Casey Kennedy Callan
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Rhyen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rhyen, updated 20 October 2026.