Renita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Renita

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,398 babies named Renita between 1925 and 2019, spanning 95 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Renita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 313 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Renita performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 2,399 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Renita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 480 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Renita in 31 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Renita 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 7,398 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.