Meaning and history
From a surname, it is an Anglicized form of the Dutch de Raedt, derived from raet meaning “advice” or “counsel.” Margaret Mitchell later used the name for the character Rhett Butler in her 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.
20062006: 330 births, rank #683
2007: 332 births, rank #703
2008: 354 births, rank #683
2009: 373 births, rank #659
2010: 411 births, rank #606
20112011: 447 births, rank #563
2012: 521 births, rank #508
2013: 688 births, rank #425
2014: 978 births, rank #340
2015: 1,341 births, rank #276
20162016: 1,768 births, rank #220
2017: 2,202 births, rank #180
2018: 2,313 births, rank #167
2019: 2,391 births, rank #166
2020: 2,350 births, rank #159
20212021: 2,538 births, rank #149
2022: 2,501 births, rank #151
2023: 2,189 births, rank #165
2024: 2,138 births, rank #174
20252025: 1,936 births, rank #188
Rhett moved from #174 to #188 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2021, with 2,538 births.