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Renuka

Girls' name

From Sanskrit रेणुका; literal meaning unconfirmed

Renuka has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1980, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Renuka, 2022

1 in 677,000

Renuka over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renuka: meaning, origin, and history

From Sanskrit रेणुका; literal meaning unconfirmed

Sanskrit

What Renuka means

Renuka is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Renuka is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Renuka comes through Sanskrit रेणुका.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 96 girls were recorded with the name Renuka between 1964 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1980; its best national rank was #6,650 in 1980.

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 Renuka?

Renuka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renuka 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renuka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renukas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renuka was born before 1982 — so the typical Renuka is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
96
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Renuka 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (10)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,650
1980

Spellings of Renuka

Renuka is not the most common spelling — Rena is, with 51.6% against Renuka's 0.13%.

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.

Renuka around the world

Where Renuka 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
    1996–1999
    #3,900
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1983–1983
    #686
    in 1983

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.

Renuka 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
#6,650
1980
Peak year
1980
10 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
96
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Renuka

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

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Sibling names for Renuka

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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