Renita
Renita was last recorded in 2019, when 8 babies were given it; 7,398 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,570 Americans named Renita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 46 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Renita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Renita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,210, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
314 babies in 1960, the peak
Renita peaked in 1960, when 314 girls were given it, #552 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8 | #12,210 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,290 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,960 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,514 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,218 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,231 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,867 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,644 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,157 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,975 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #18,194 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,553 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,073 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,644 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,932 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,138 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,004 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,572 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,426 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,973 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,201 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,085 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 53 | #2,445 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,885 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 83 | #1,763 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,567 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 97 | #1,434 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 112 | #1,264 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 113 | #1,220 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 139 | #1,065 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 118 | #1,156 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,177 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 148 | #1,003 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 152 | #967 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 152 | #980 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 139 | #1,018 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 102 | #1,228 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 112 | #1,137 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 99 | #1,164 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 129 | #970 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 164 | #820 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 176 | #766 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 188 | #746 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 188 | #776 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 207 | #724 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 240 | #640 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 227 | #644 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 203 | #681 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 210 | #670 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 200 | #696 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 208 | #720 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 242 | #650 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 254 | #634 | 0.13 |
| 1961 | 302 | #578 | 0.15 |
| 1960 | 314 | #552 | 0.16 |
| 1959 | 309 | #554 | 0.15 |
| 1958 | 299 | #566 | 0.15 |
| 1957 | 237 | #636 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 209 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1955 | 159 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 106 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 87 | #1,037 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 60 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 51 | #1,312 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 67 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,349 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,113 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,337 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,852 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,437 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,525 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,552 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,134 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,377 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,054 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,355 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Renita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Renita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Renita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Renita, and how old are they?
6,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 7,398 Americans ever recorded as Renita. The median Renita alive today is 57 years old; half are between 46 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 6,168 people named Renita (6,168 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,808 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 22 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,470 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 169 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13 |
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).
Where are babies named Renita born?
The states with the most babies named Renita are Illinois, California and Texas, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 480 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 419 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 417 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 380 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| North Carolina | 296 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 294 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 268 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 265 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 262 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Alabama | 234 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Renita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Renita is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1925 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Renita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 25,691 babies since 1880, Renita is the second most given (29% of them). In 2025 none of their 665 babies recorded by SSA was a Renita (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 Renita
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 Renita and names like it
- Compare Renita and RenataBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRenita peaked in 1960.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Renita since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Renita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Renita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.