Comments for the name Rhea

Very pretty :)

Yes, it's probably something that has to do with rivers because in Portugal we have a word "ria" which means river and it's pronounced the same way as Rhea. And since Portuguese language has its roots in Latin and Greek...

Rhea Perlman is an actress best known for playing Carla Tortelli on the show "Cheers" and Zena Sherman on the show "Taxi."

I write a book (more names in my polls), and one of the main character's name is Rhea.

I have a friend named Rhea. I think it's a pretty name. Also: Rhea is an anagram of Hera!

Rhea is also a species of flightless birds. It really has nothing to do with names, but I just thought I'd mention it. lol.

One of my favorites!

RAYA I think is a good name for use of pronunciation. :)

One lady I knew with this name, a teacher, was called diarrhea by the kids, behind her back of course.

This name is so pretty!

Er, there's a /bird/ called a Rhea. A very, very big gray bird. Not exactly the best name for a little girl.

In the film Solaris (both Tarkovsky and Soderbergh versions), the troubled but beautiful wife of the protagonist is named Rheya. I think that's a lovely variation of this beautiful name.

My grandma's name is Marie. But she went by Rhea when she was a teenager. My fiancee says he doesn't like the name Rhea because he thinks it's a name that can be teased easily, i.e. Rhea has diarhea. Yeah gross. But I think this can also be spelt Ria, and be short for Maria, Gloria.

Caroline Rhea has this as a surname.

It's nice, but I can't help but think of how similar it sounds to the word urea.

I've also heard this pronounced "RAY-ah".

I think it's a nice name but beware I knew a girl with this name and kids would call her diarrhea.

I first heard of this name in the movie Solaris and have loved it ever since. It is one of my favorite female names, though I have always thought it was pronounced ray-ah. It is extremely feminine without being fluffy, pretentious or airheaded sounding. To me it sounds almost mysterious but delicate.

I love this name if it is pronounced "Ray-ah", mostly because it sounds prettier this way but also as a way of avoiding that awful "diarrhea" nickname.

Excuse me, but I have the name Rhea for my middle name. Yet, I pronounce mine much like the name Rae, for it's also short for Rachel. My name was meant to honor my grandmother who holds the name Rachel. Yet, my family has the most unique combinations of names, we spelled my name R-H-E-A, Rhea, or Rae.

The proper Latin pronunciation of this name is RAY-ə.

I personally bear the name, and I like it. Thanks for those who said it's a beautiful name.

I think it's very pretty, but there is the nasty "diarrhea" joke.

Etymologists have also suggested that it comes from ερα meaning ground—with metathesis (switching) of the first two letters to get ρεα. It has also been suggested that the name is related to the Greek "pomegranate" (ροα) and is Indo-European in origin.

I really like it. I prefer it pronounced REE-ah, though RAY-ah wouldn't be a bad sound, either. When I think of someone named Rhea, I think of a tall, beautiful woman with long blond hair, amber eyes, and caramel-colored skin wearing a long gold dress standing in the sunset. I always think of gold whenever I hear this name.