Entry № 8696 · Welsh origin

Rhonda Rhonda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RON-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Good spear / noisy river (Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda")"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Welsh)

A name that means "good spear / noisy river (beach boys' "help me, rhonda")".

Rhonda is from the Welsh Rhondda — a valley and river in South Wales, from rhon ("pike, lance, spear") + the intensifier -dda ("good") — or alternatively "noisy one." A top-50 US baby name from 1961 to 1969, peaking at #44 in 1963. and Summer Days albums. Corral (1957). Rhonda Rousey is Ronda Rousey (different spelling). Rhonda Stark — Married... with Children.

Good spear / noisy river (Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda") — a Welsh name.

The name in its native script.

Rhonda
Transliteration
Rhonda
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɒn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rhonda stands.

Rhonda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rhondas before her.

Real people
Rhonda Fleming
American Queen of Technicolor.
1923 – 2020
Rhonda Byrne
Australian author of The Secret.
born 1951
Rhonda Vincent
American Queen of Bluegrass.
born 1962
In fiction
Rhonda
Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda".
1965

Names connected to Rhonda.

The number behind Rhonda.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rhonda reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.