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Renata

#481 in 2025Girls' name

Reborn

Renata has been given to 14,616 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #481 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 720 recorded.

Babies named Renata, 2025

1 in 5,220

Renata over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renata: meaning, origin, and history

Reborn

Latin

What Renata means

Renata means “reborn”, associated with renatus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Feminine form of Latin saint's name Renatus, from renatus (“reborn”)

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Renata (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Renata is used in English, Albanian, Czech, Faroese, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish and Portuguese and additional language sections. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Renée and Renato.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Renata is pronounced /ɹəˈnɑːtʌ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,610 girls were recorded with the name Renata between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 720 in 1980; its best national rank was #336 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #508 in 2020 to #481 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #637 in 2015 to #481 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Renata between 1980 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1980; its best national rank was #6,076 in 1980.

How common is Renata?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,220
635 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,530
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#481
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renata sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renata. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renatas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renata was born before 2013 — so the typical Renata is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,208
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (4,728).

Is Renata rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+39
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+27
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+156
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.42×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.2%
Peak was 1980 (720)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#336
1980

Renata’s breakout year

Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.

In 1980, 720 girls were named Renata — about #336 that year — roughly 5.3× as many as in the surrounding years. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders

Spellings of Renata

Renata is not the most common spelling — Rena is, with 29.0% against Renata's 10.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Renata is used

Across 2016–2025, Renata was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 676 girls, against 1 in 2,137 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

2148 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 676
  2. 2Texas1 in 741
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 885
  4. 4California1 in 1,220
  5. 5Nevada1 in 1,449
  6. 6Colorado1 in 1,515
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 2,222
  8. 8Illinois1 in 2,273

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Renata is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 99% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Renata around the world

Where Renata ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2010
    #910
    in 2010
  • France
    1924–2025
    #4,862
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2000
    #577
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Renata

People whose public names include Renata, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Renata in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Renata. Linked forms have their own page here.

ReneaRenadaRenateRenéeRenāte

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Renata by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#481
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 27
Best rank ever
#336
1980
Peak year
1980
720 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,610
Count in 2025
635

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,076
1980
Peak year
1980
6 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Renata

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RenaeReneRenitaReneaRenaRenleyRennieRennaRenleeReneeRenesmeeRenateReniyaRenattaAminataRenayRenettaRenadaAssataReniyahRendaRenellRenadRennata

Names with a curve like Renata

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Renata, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

IvoryMarenEmmyKimberVioletaMiraWinterDaniLeiaAdelinaLucianaMaryam

Sibling names for Renata

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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