Rhyett
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- RY-et
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #4,138 for boys
Rhyett is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,138th for boys in the US (25 babies).
What does Rhyett mean?
Modern: variant of Rhett, perhaps influenced by Wyatt
Builds on Rhett, made famous by Rhett Butler in Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind.
Is Rhyett a girl's or a boy's name?
Rhyett is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 25 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rhyett in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,138th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 25 about 1 in 68,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 50% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 25 boys in the US were named Rhyett, making it the 4,138th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,447th. It first appears in the records in 2015.
It has been given to more boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most boys named Rhyett of any year since it first appeared, in 2015.
Half of all the boys named Rhyett in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 731 boys in the US were given Rhyett or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #439, up from #4,138 for this spelling alone.
Rhyett in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,138 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,318 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,452 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,441 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,624 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,447 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,802 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,784 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,638 |
Names like Rhyett
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Rayden, Kyaire, Kayden, Raiden, Ronan, Cassian, Brecken, Braylen, Callan, Finnegan, Declan, Deacon
Other spellings of Rhyett
Names related to Rhyett
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
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, “Rhyett: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rhyett, updated 20 October 2026.