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Renea

#11,708 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Renea has been given to 4,335 babies in the U.S. since 1932. In 2025 it ranked #11,708 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 161 recorded.

Babies named Renea, 2025

1 in 414,000

Renea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renea: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Renea means

Renea is a given name.

The naming story behind Renea

Wikidata records Renea as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q26266256, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,335 girls were recorded with the name Renea between 1932 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 161 in 1964; its best national rank was #799 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,749 in 2020 to #11,708 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,842 in 2015 to #11,708 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Renea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,708
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renea 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Reneas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renea was born before 1970 — so the typical Renea is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
31.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,216
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (1,348).

Is Renea 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
+3,199
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,041
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,866
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.0%
Peak was 1964 (161)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#799
1966

Spellings of Renea

Renea is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 28.5% against Renea's 0.20%.

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 Renea is used

Across 1910–2025, Renea was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 77,089 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 25,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 50,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 50,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8California1 in 100,000

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. Renea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Renea around the world

Where Renea 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
    1996–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1972–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Renea

People whose public names include Renea, 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.

Renea in other languages

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

ReneeRenataRenateRenéeRenáta

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

Renea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,708
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,041
Best rank ever
#799
1966
Peak year
1964
161 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,335
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Renea

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

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Names with a curve like Renea

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

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Sibling names for Renea

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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