Renetta
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Renetta has been given to 1,573 babies in the U.S. since 1910. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1962, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Renetta, 1998
1 in 735,000
Renetta over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Renetta?
Renetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1998
- 1 in 735,000
- 5 of 3,677,189 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 353,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1998
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 509,768 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Renetta sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Renettas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Renetta was born before 1962 — so the typical Renetta is around 63 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 26.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 21.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,183
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (411).
Is Renetta 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1962 (56)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.7% average annual change
Spellings of Renetta
Renetta is not the most common spelling — Rosetta is, with 24.2% against Renetta's 1.3%.
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 Renetta is used
Across 1910–2025, Renetta was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 348,999 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 2Illinois1 in 100,000
- 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 4Alabama1 in —
- 5California1 in —
- 6Kentucky1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 in —
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. Renetta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Renetta around the world
Where Renetta 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.
- France1933–1960#1,867in 1960
- South Australia1958–1958#598in 1958
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Renetta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Renetta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Renetta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.