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Renia

Girls' name

Diminutive of Renata

Renia has been given to 663 babies in the U.S. since 1898. 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 1956, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Renia, 2012

1 in 406,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renia: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Renata

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Renia means

Renia is a diminutive of Renata.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Renia is used in Polish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Renia → Renata. The family’s meaning is “reborn”, recorded in English with the source elements renatus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Renata.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 663 girls were recorded with the name Renia between 1898 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1956; its best national rank was #1,920 in 1898.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Renia?

Renia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 406,000
9 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 196,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
281,695 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renia 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 2012 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 281,695 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renia was born before 1965 — so the typical Renia is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
543
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Renia 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1956 (20)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,920
1898

Spellings of Renia

Renia is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 26.9% against Renia's 0.03%.

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.

Renia around the world

Where Renia 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.

  • South Australia
    1962–1962
    #446
    in 1962

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Renia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,920
1898
Peak year
1956
20 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
663
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Renia

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

RenadRennaRenleeRennieRenlyDuniaRenieRenleyAnniaReniyaRenneSeniaRenattaZaniaLaniaHaniaRennyRennRenRendaDoniaReneaDeniaJunia

Sibling names for Renia

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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