Renetta
Renetta was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 1,573 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Renetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 51 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Renetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Renetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,008, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1962, the peak
Renetta peaked in 1962, when 56 girls were given it, #1,506 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #16,008 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,182 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,290 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,080 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,769 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,022 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,550 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,301 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,408 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,838 | 12.5 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 19 | #4,074 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,725 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,823 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,926 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,179 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,281 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,055 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,161 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,662 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,984 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,892 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,299 | 21.7 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,326 | 20.4 |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,798 | 28.6 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,562 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,875 | 25.0 |
| 1967 | 35 | #2,003 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,817 | 23.6 |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,763 | 23.8 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,772 | 23.2 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,944 | 19.2 |
| 1962 | 56 | #1,506 | 28.5 |
| 1961 | 45 | #1,710 | 22.3 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,719 | 21.8 |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,581 | 23.7 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,106 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 26 | #2,206 | 12.7 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,993 | 14.9 |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,663 | 19.9 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,220 | 12.4 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,613 | 20.2 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,388 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,835 | 16.1 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,639 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,053 | 13.4 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,101 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,427 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,574 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,337 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,323 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,206 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,174 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,084 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,385 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,404 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,109 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,053 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,889 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,896 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,357 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,228 | 8.4 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,113 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,166 | 14.3 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,267 | 13.9 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,827 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,844 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,083 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,113 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,248 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,114 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,369 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,865 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,410 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,487 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,644 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,008 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,373 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,535 | 7.9 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,358 | 15.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Renetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Renetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Renetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Renetta, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 73% of the 1,573 Americans ever recorded as Renetta. The median Renetta alive today is 60 years old; half are between 51 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 1,166 people named Renetta (1,161 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,227 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 51 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 474 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 449 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 161 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 25,077 babies since 1880, Renetta is the third most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 665 babies recorded by SSA was a Renetta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Renetta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Renetta and names like it
- Compare Renetta and RenataBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRenetta peaked in 1962.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Renetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Renetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Renetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.