In 2025, 635 US girls were named Renata, making it the 481st most common girls’ name of the year, up 39 places from #520 in 2024. That is 41 more than the 594 girls named Renata in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #336, reached in 1980. That year also had the most girls given the name: 720. For comparison, it was #637 in 2015 and #2,413 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Renata in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 5 babies. In all, 14,616 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,728 babies named Renata.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,222 US girls were named Renata; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 685. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,531 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Renata ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #181 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Renea (4,335 babies since 1880), Renada (710 babies since 1880) and Renita (7,398 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Renetta, Renate and Renatta are summarised on this page.
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