Renata — #516 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Renata

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,973 babies named Renata between 1900 and 2024, spanning 125 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Renata currently holds the #516 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 720 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Renata performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,726 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Renata shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,495 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Renata in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Renata in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 13,973 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.