Given name
Rhianon
“the great and sacred queen”
Rhianon is a variant of Rhiannon. One Welsh interpretation is “the great and sacred queen.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Rhianon is a variant of Rhiannon. One Welsh interpretation is “the great and sacred queen.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Rhianon is a variant of Rhiannon. A possible origin is Celtic, although the derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Rhianon is a variant of Rhiannon. The history of Rhiannon gives this family its wider story. Rhiannon appears in the Mabinogi, a medieval collection of Welsh legends.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Rhianon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 355
- 0 boys · 355 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 25 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 326 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rhianon’s family of names
Rhianon has a related form in Rhiannon.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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