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Renita

Girls' name

Feminine form of Renatus

Renita has been given to 7,398 babies in the U.S. since 1925. 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 1960, with 314 recorded.

Babies named Renita, 2019

1 in 434,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renita: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Renatus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Renita means

Renita is a feminine form of Renatus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Renita is used in English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Renita → Renatus. The family’s meaning is “reborn”, recorded in Latin with the source elements renātus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Renatus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,398 girls were recorded with the name Renita between 1925 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 314 in 1960; its best national rank was #552 in 1960.

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 Renita?

Renita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 434,000
8 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 210,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
300,847 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renita 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 2019 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 300,847 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renita was born before 1968 — so the typical Renita is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
7,234
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (2,400).

Is Renita 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 1960 (314)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#552
1960

Spellings of Renita

Renita is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 29.8% against Renita's 0.77%.

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 Renita is used

Across 1910–2025, Renita was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 27,284 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 12,500
  2. 2Georgia1 in 12,500
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 12,500
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 12,500
  5. 5Virginia1 in 12,500
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 14,286
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 16,667
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 16,667

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

Renita around the world

Where Renita 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
    2007–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • Canada
    2005–2005
    #2,828
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1953–1953
    #449
    in 1953

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

Renita 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
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Best rank ever
#552
1960
Peak year
1960
314 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
7,398
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Renita

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

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Names with a curve like Renita

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

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Sibling names for Renita

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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